Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

[Michał Górny]

On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 15:31 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 18-10-2019 15:41:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > 3. Directly fetching files from distfiles.gentoo.org will become
> > a little harder.  To fetch a distfile named 'foo-1.tar.gz', you'd have
> > to use something like:
> >
> > $ printf '%s' foo-1.tar.gz | b2sum | cut -c1-2
> > 1b
> > $ wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/1b/foo-1.tar.gz
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Alternatively, you can:
> >
> > $ wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/INDEX
> >
> > and grep for the right path there.  This INDEX is also a more
> > lightweight alternative to HTML indexes generated by the servers.
>
> Would it be possible to run a service that sends a 302 for the
> distfiles/foo-1.tar.gz to the appropriate bucket such that manual
> fetching doesn't require to calculate the hash?
>
> I prototyped this myself for distfiles.prefix, and seems like a nice
> guesture for at least the transition period?
>

That would only for servers whose admins would explicitly install
the service, i.e. not for anyone using GENTOO_MIRRORS.  If you're
talking purely about distfiles.gentoo.org, we may add something like
that by the end of transitional period.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny