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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Taking the earlier comment ( changing files only on the mirrors ) there |
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> are no portage changes that are technically required. However, you'd |
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> need to change about 10000 ( random number I pulled out of my ass, but |
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> there are many affected ) SRC_URI's to point to the new format, or |
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> produce some sort of hack that translates between the two, and I |
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> wouldn't be to fond of the latter effort, mostly because it would |
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> probably rot in the tree for way too long ;) |
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I don't see how making portage translate mirror://gentoo/${P}.patch.bz2 |
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to http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/${firstchar}/${P}.patch.bz2 is |
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worse than changing 10000 SRC_URIs. |
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> And you need to modify policy for placing files on the mirrors, but |
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> thats not a portage problem either; from the portage POV the change is |
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> relatively seamless. |
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That should be a one-time effort for one person anyway. I guess it's not |
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too hard to make a script that puts the stuff in |
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toucan:/space/distfiles-local into the right dir. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Member |
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