Re: [gentoo-dev] perforce client proper license

[Alec Warner]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:44:48 +0530
> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
>> wrote:
>> > I think you will encounter namespace collisions, thats why I CC'd
>> > zac as he maintains mirror-dist ;p
>>
>> Why the hell didn't we think of this before!? :o
>
> Uhm. We did. PMS is worded very carefully to ensure that this all
> works. The only question is whether Portage's mirroring scripts are
> broken. Alec seems to think they are; I'm sceptical, because a) I
> pestered Zac about the issue really early on, and b) I strongly suspect
> we'd've seen the breakage by now if they were.

I said I doubted they were and to ask the maintainer:

00:45 < antarus> zmedico: do the mirroring scripts do src_uri arrows properly?
00:46 < zmedico> antarus: yes
00:46 < antarus> ok super ;)

Thread Over ;)

>
>> The easiest solution I can think of is for emerge to give special
>> consideration to the mirrors in GENTOO_MIRRORS, and look for the
>> renamed file there instead of the original ones.
>
> I quote:
>
> In EAPIs supporting arrows, if an arrow is used, the filename used when
> saving to \t{DISTDIR} shall instead be the name on the right of the
> arrow. When consulting mirrors (except for those explicitly listed on
> the left of the arrow, if \t{mirror://} is used), the filename to the
> right of the arrow shall be requested instead of the filename in the
> URI.
>
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh
>