Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

[Daniel Ostrow]

On Monday 06 March 2006 13:18, 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....
>
> 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.

You seem to be missing my point, let's pick an ebuild at random, say 
app-admin/cronolog whose SRC_URI="http://cronolog.org/download/${P}.tar.gz", 
no the automirror script will need to know to mirror at in /c/ on the 
distfiles mirrors, that's outside of portage, however when I emerge cronolog 
portage will need to know that the location, on the distfiles mirrors, of 
cronolog, is now the equivilent of mirror://gentoo/${firstchar}, taking 
distfiles.gentoo.org as an example that would mean 
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/c/${P}.tar.gz, that means a portage 
modification in my book.

> > 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.

And I was saying I agree since the same work has to be done to handle all the 
automirrored stuff anyway.

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Daniel Ostrow
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
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