Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:50:35 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> <snip>
> Pushing files that are still available somewhere else, but cannot be
> directly fetched for whatever reason is still to be bone
> through /space/distfiles-local.

 This, above, is an important point for the below comment.
 
> *PLEASE NOTE:* This is to be considered QA policy, so we're going to
> ask
> soon to enforce this. This requirement, though, _will_ be superseded
> as
> soon as Infra provides us with a proper archive for this kind of
> files.

 I wonder how the QA team is going to enforce this? I can't think of any 
 heuristics to distinguish between mirror://gentoo/<self-produced 
 distfile> and mirror://gentoo/<upstream distfile not self-produced> - 
 One way this can happen is dead upstream but useful application. Yes, we 
 have GENTOO_MIRRORS but I've seen it often enough that GENTOO_MIRRORS 
 value is invalid (user error) and SRC_URI is invalid which leads to a 
 non-ideal user experience - at which point $dev normally changes SRC_URI 
 to mirror://gentoo/.

 Care to touch on that topic? Note: An acceptable answer to me would be 
 "update documentation and use common sense" because I don't think there 
 is any other option. At risk of being too wordy, I'll leave it at that.

 Thanks,
 Jeremy