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

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 01/20/2011 01:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 01/20/2011 01:23 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
>> On 1/20/11 1:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
>>> If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is
>>> reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use
>>> the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these.
>>> This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if
>>> the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs
>>> team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before.
>> Storing distfiles in public_html is not a perfect solution either. If
>> the developer retires, what do we do with the files?
>>
> There is another problem:
>
>    grep mirror /usr/portage/eclass/* | sed -e 's/:.*$//' | sort | uniq
>
> shows 39 eclasses which refer to mirror://
>
Sorry darkside pointed out that there are other mirrors,

  grep "mirror://gentoo" /usr/portage/eclass/* | sed -e 's/:.*$//' |
sort | uniq

shows 16 eclasses which would have to be changed.

-- 
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Developer