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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] network sandbox challenge
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:49:02
Message-Id: ee0ae7dd97143ecd290e292a3a4a53bf32accd6b.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] network sandbox challenge by Samuel Bernardo
1 On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 11:45 +0000, Samuel Bernardo wrote:
2 > Hi Michał,
3 >
4 > On 3/27/20 11:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > SRC_URI is well-defined, and that makes it possible for us and users to
6 > > develop consistent solutions. We have Gentoo mirror network to increase
7 > > reliability when upstream servers fail. Users can deploy local mirrors
8 > > to increase reliability further, improve throughput and make things work
9 > > in semi-isolated networks.
10 >
11 > This is news for me. So to see if I understand the Gentoo mirror
12 > network, everything I place in SRC_URI is already mirrored when using my
13 > personal overlay in git.gentoo.org?
14
15 Nope, just ::gentoo. Minus ebuilds with RESTRICT=mirror.
16
17 >
18 > > > Same question for unpack context when using directly the source
19 > > > repository with vcs functions.
20 > > VCS ebuilds generally suck, for multiple reasons. We allow users to use
21 > > them but with minimal support. However, e.g. git-r3 supports local
22 > > mirrors to resolve some problems.
23 >
24 > So, using local mirrors means that is the responsibility of the end user
25 > to review the ebuilds and create, for example, the local git mirror
26 > repository and then define EGIT_MIRROR_URI in make.conf to override for
27 > all ebuilds?
28 >
29
30 Yes. The mirrors use the same format as git-r3.eclass distdir, so it's
31 mostly useful to clone repositories from your other Gentoo system.
32
33 --
34 Best regards,
35 Michał Górny

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