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Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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> To my fellow Gentoo Devlopers and Users, |
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> The Gentoo Infrastructure team proposed this idea in june 2006 |
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> * Reduce mirror time for Gentoo specific patches/tarballs |
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> * Offer an official location for Gentoo specific patches/tarballs |
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> (Instead of using dev.g.o, this would be the official place) |
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> * Offer a distributed (3+ servers) mirror rotation for this |
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> This would be the "official" location for those distfiles when infra makes |
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> it available. I am asking them for status reports on this you will maybe |
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> see some here :) |
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> But for the meantime I am using http://gentooexperimental.org/~genstef/dist |
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> for this purpose. The reason is that I can remove and add stuff there |
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> myself and can keep control of what gets deleted. I can use my favourite |
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> scripts to create distfiles and keep them ordered. For example I am using |
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> this for firefox-2.0. This workaround I initially had to use when I |
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> discovered a bug in the mirroring script that was annoying me regularly. |
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> The mirroring script does ignore all RESTRICT=mirror SRC_URIs even those at |
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> mirror://gentoo/. |
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> "Bug 121332 ppp patch missing from distfiles" |
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> "Bug 100260 The File foo2zjs-20050319.tar.gz missed on Gentoo-Mirrors" |
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> Those get uploaded and look fine but after 6 months they are suddenly being |
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> removed by the script. |
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There is a distfiles whitelist[1] for this exact purpose...isn't there? |
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[1] |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/mirrors/overview-distfile.xml |
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