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On Friday 25 July 2003 22:04, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> If the source code's in our distfiles mirror system, we're immune from any |
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> changes / withdrawals made elsewhere. Our ebuilds will continue to work |
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> until the package itself breaks, or we choose to replace it. |
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> But if we're not mirroring the source code, then the ebuild breaks as soon |
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> as the source code tarball/rpm/whatever is withdrawn from the author's |
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> master site. It shouldn't be a big problem, but it's worth thinking about. |
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To battle such an event we could choose to automatically mirror the original |
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location, and have a fill in file to come into place as soon as a file is |
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removed from such a mirror. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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