Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mirroring distfiles/patches on patches.gentoo.org

[Alec Warner]

Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Alec Warner wrote:
>>> Those get uploaded and look fine but after 6 months they are suddenly
>>> being removed by the script.
>>>
>> There is a distfiles whitelist[1] for this exact purpose...isn't there?
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/mirrors/overview-distfile.xml
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I was not aware of this when I was looking for a
> solution badly back then. Must be a rather recent development. Looks easy
> and straightforward - even deleting is possible. Good job, guys :)
>
> Still the developer needs to know about it and think of it in the moment of
> adding mirror restrictions to an ebuild with mirror://gentoo sources. A
> risk that is not going to be taken in any of my ebuilds.
>

I agree it could use a bit more...Preaching.  I think the innards of 
really how our mirroring system works is lost on some people.  They know 
the abstraction; "it's automated and does X,Y,Z" but they don't really 
know how it all works.

-Alec Warner
antarus@g.o
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