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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Smalltalk/X
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 10:32:11
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.3.96.1020609172818.29387D-100000@pluto.prosalg.no
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Smalltalk/X by Marko Mikulicic
1 On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Marko Mikulicic wrote:
2
3 > I don't understand. Does this mean that those packages cannot be
4 > download from the original url but only from your mirror. This
5 > solves a problem, but raises other: if the package is not in the mirrors,
6 > or the mirror is down, or the package is not yet in CVS ?
7
8 As you can specify a sequence of mirrors in /etc/make.conf, it is less
9 likely that our mirrors will be down than that
10 djs.ddid.shf.in/~varajana/tmp/tmp/foo/foo/tmp.tgz will be :P
11
12 > This means that while I'm writing the package I cannot test it
13 > completly (at least not the download) until it is copied to the mirrors.
14
15 That is a correct, but should be considered a minor matter, as this step
16 will be performed by the developer committing your ebuild for you.
17
18 > What SRC_URI should I put in the .ebuild ? Only
19 > http:/nowhere/${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz ?
20
21 I guess that is okay. http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz is
22 also okay, as this (most likely) is where the package will reside (before
23 it is spread to our mirrors.
24
25 In fact, I think just "${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz" should work, but I have not
26 tested that.
27
28 Karl T