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On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 00:24 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> > Today you get chastised for using /space/distfiles-local and not |
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> > following policy changes. The devmanual states that it's deprecated |
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> > since at least 2011, and talks of using d.g.o [1]. |
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> > [1] |
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> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts |
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> Sorry I'm late to the party, but I would like to enquire about what happens |
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> if a file with existing filename but different b2sum gets uploaded to |
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> /space/distfiles-local now? |
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The same as before. It gets put in top-level disfiles directory. |
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Hashes are calculated from filenames, so this wouldn't affect it. That |
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is, if it put those files in subdirectories in the first place because |
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it doesn't. |
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> Doing so and updating the Manifest used to be another (not necessarily |
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> preferred) method to address upstream remaking release packages. |
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It's no longer valid. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |