Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: ban mirror://gentoo/ from ebuilds

[Patrick Lauer]

On 08/18/11 10:50, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have already said this before, but it looks like nobody cared. We have
> a problem for what concerns Gentoo-generated distfiles.

People being quiet doesn't imply they don't care - just that it gets
really frustrating to repeat the same thing every week ;)

> This includes custom snapshots, custom packages, patches, patchsets, and
> so on so forth. While it was infra that (back when I joined at least)
> asked not to use dev.gentoo.org for hosting said fails and rather prefer
> to use mirror://gentoo/, they already stated that it's not a problem to
> do so until we have a proper system in place (system that has been
> considered and worked on for quite a bit already and yet is not
> available).

So - what needs to be done to finally make it happen?

> Unfortunately, as long as the mirror://gentoo/ option is still
> maintained, we'll end up with situations like today's gnuconfig that
> couldn't be fetched,

That's not the only one - if you want to recreate a year-old system
you'll have trouble finding those patches because the ebuilds were
removed and the distfiles removed from the mirrors

> causing all ~arch users to see the same failure,
> because the distfile wasn't uploaded to the staging area. Of course the
> same could happen with a stable SRC_URI, but then it would fail after
> hitting that, rather than going through half the gentoo mirrors trying
> to find a file that is not there.
>
> So, anybody has reasons beside laziness, or concern for infra's disk
> usage (that argument is allowed to come only from infra members!), to
> not go this route?

I'll even donate two 2TB disks to kill the disk space argument ;)
Hardware is cheap, the maintenance and planning is most likely more of a
bottleneck - but then there's enough smart people around if anyone needs
help.