Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

[Alec Warner]

Simon Stelling wrote:
> Daniel Ostrow wrote:
>
>> Hrm, /me thinks you are missing something there, almost the entire
>> tree doesn't explicitly state the mirror://gentoo SRC_URI, portage
>> handles that automatically. That being the case portage would have
>> change so that the automatic lookup was mirror://gentoo/${firstchar}/.
>> So that is at least one portage change I can think of being required....

1925 ebuilds ( with a hacked up SRC_URI checking script )[1] 
URI_check.py "mirror://gentoo"

>
>
> Huh? What does it state then? AFAIK ebuilds should ALWAYS use the
> mirror:// URI when possible, and since this change is only affecting our
> own mirrors, it is always possible.
>
>> Sure I can still see your point about needing to manually change the
>> packages that do explicitly state mirror://gentoo in their SRC_URI,
>> but given that you would have to do the above anyway....
>
>
> Huh?? My point was that we shouldn't have to change all those ebuilds
> but instead just changing the mirror://gentoo-mapping.
>

See if we do it the ebuild way we can filter via EAPI.  The ebuild has a 
EAPI=2 SRC_URI, but portage is only EAPI=0, then the ebuild is 
automagically filtered; as opposed to the ebuild failing miserably. 
It's getting close to the point where we can finally leverage EAPI to 
push features out faster because backwards compatability is maintained ( 
for portage ).  Infra is still screwed essentially doing 2 
implementations until such time as the old one can die.

I'd prefer the mirrors not be special cased in a mapping since.  URI's 
are URI's are URI's...

-Alec Warner


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[1] dev.gentoo.org/~antarus/URI_check.py

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