Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Split distfile mirror directory structure

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 01/27/2018 02:01 PM, Gordon Pettey wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
>> On 01/27/2018 11:42 AM, Gordon Pettey wrote:
>>> Why not use a hash of the file name instead of its contents?...
>>
>> That's the proposal =P
>
> I'm not following, then. What's all this about a temporary directory
> because of not knowing the hash in advance? The ebuild must specify
> the file name, or src_unpack wouldn't work. There is never a point
> where the file name, and therefore its hash, is unknown.
>

There were three proposed ways to split up the files: by filename,
hash(filename), and hash(filedata). The winner was hash(filename). The
GLEP lists only two reasons for rejecting hash(filedata), and I was
curious about them.