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On 18-08-2011 08:50, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> Hello everybody, |
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> |
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> I have already said this before, but it looks like nobody cared. We |
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> have a problem for what concerns Gentoo-generated distfiles. |
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> |
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> This includes custom snapshots, custom packages, patches, patchsets, |
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> and so on so forth. While it was infra that (back when I joined at |
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> least) asked not to use dev.gentoo.org for hosting said fails and |
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> rather prefer to use mirror://gentoo/, they already stated that it's |
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> not a problem to do so until we have a proper system in place |
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> (system that has been considered and worked on for quite a bit |
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> already and yet is not available). |
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> |
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> Unfortunately, as long as the mirror://gentoo/ option is still |
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> maintained, we'll end up with situations like today's gnuconfig that |
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> couldn't be fetched, causing all ~arch users to see the same |
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> failure, because the distfile wasn't uploaded to the staging area. |
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> Of course the same could happen with a stable SRC_URI, but then it |
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> would fail after hitting that, rather than going through half the |
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> gentoo mirrors trying to find a file that is not there. |
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> So, anybody has reasons beside laziness, or concern for infra's disk |
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> usage (that argument is allowed to come only from infra members!), |
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> to not go this route? |
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Diego, |
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I understand the concern, but instead of banning the use of |
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mirror://gentoo, why not make it mandatory to have a dev.gentoo.org link |
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in SRC_URI when there's a mirror://gentoo link? |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng |
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