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On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 04:46, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:27, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > On 10/12/04 Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > The developer would use this temporary location as follows: |
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> > > |
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> > > 1. developer creates an ebuild which needs a patch |
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> > > 2. developer puts SRC_URI="patches.gentoo.org/${P}-$patchname" in the |
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> > > ebuild, at the end of the SRC_URI definition |
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> > |
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> > make that |
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> > SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/patchname http://patches.gentoo.org/patchname" |
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> > ($GENTOO_MIRRORS can be empty) |
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> |
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> What is the difference from just putting these files in your own dev |
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> space? If they just exist on dev.gentoo.org the developers themselves can |
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> arange removing etc. |
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The difference is, dev is a single point of failure, plus you're |
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suggesting that dev become a single mirror for that file. It could |
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potentially create an issue of ddos. The suggestion we're making is |
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coming up with a solution that is as simple as putting on your dev |
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space, but its distributed on several servers we already have. |
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