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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] location for binary package files (when vendors don't provide them)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:18:36
Message-Id: 20031006171412.7ebefdb3.weeve@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] location for binary package files (when vendors don't provide them) by Jon Portnoy
1 On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:55:34 -0400
2 Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > You can put it in distfiles-local on dev.gentoo.org, then use
5 > mirror://gentoo/<filename> as the SRC_URI in the ebuild.
6
7 If it's not too much trouble, could you fix your mail client to only
8 respond to the ML?
9
10 I meant to include that something other than mirrors may be needed as
11 files do periodically get purged, and if it disappeared, it could be
12 hard/time consuming to reproduce.
13
14 --
15 Jason Wever
16 Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead