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Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> Alec Warner wrote: |
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>> Taking the earlier comment ( changing files only on the mirrors ) |
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>> there are no portage changes that are technically required. However, |
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>> you'd need to change about 10000 ( random number I pulled out of my |
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>> ass, but there are many affected ) SRC_URI's to point to the new |
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>> format, or produce some sort of hack that translates between the two, |
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>> and I wouldn't be to fond of the latter effort, mostly because it |
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>> would probably rot in the tree for way too long ;) |
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> I don't see how making portage translate |
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> mirror://gentoo/${P}.patch.bz2 to |
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> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/${firstchar}/${P}.patch.bz2 is |
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> worse than changing 10000 SRC_URIs. |
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Better yet, the new portage could download files by trying both kind of |
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URLs (of course, only during the transition period). |
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After portage team mark the new portage version stable on all arches and |
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give the folks a chance to update their systems (6 months perhaps), |
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infra team could make the transition to the new URLs the same way |
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they're doing releases -> historical transitions (namely using hardlinks). |
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