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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 13:31:15
Message-Id: 20191019133102.GL19098@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout by "Michał Górny"
1 Hi,
2
3 On 18-10-2019 15:41:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > 3. Directly fetching files from distfiles.gentoo.org will become
5 > a little harder. To fetch a distfile named 'foo-1.tar.gz', you'd have
6 > to use something like:
7 >
8 > $ printf '%s' foo-1.tar.gz | b2sum | cut -c1-2
9 > 1b
10 > $ wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/1b/foo-1.tar.gz
11 > ...
12 >
13 >
14 > Alternatively, you can:
15 >
16 > $ wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/INDEX
17 >
18 > and grep for the right path there. This INDEX is also a more
19 > lightweight alternative to HTML indexes generated by the servers.
20
21 Would it be possible to run a service that sends a 302 for the
22 distfiles/foo-1.tar.gz to the appropriate bucket such that manual
23 fetching doesn't require to calculate the hash?
24
25 I prototyped this myself for distfiles.prefix, and seems like a nice
26 guesture for at least the transition period?
27
28 Thanks,
29 Fabian
30
31
32 --
33 Fabian Groffen
34 Gentoo on a different level

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