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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:35:47
Message-Id: 4D388036.4020208@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On 01/20/2011 01:23 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > On 1/20/11 1:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
3 >> If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is
4 >> reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use
5 >> the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these.
6 >> This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if
7 >> the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs
8 >> team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before.
9 > Storing distfiles in public_html is not a perfect solution either. If
10 > the developer retires, what do we do with the files?
11 >
12
13 There is another problem:
14
15 grep mirror /usr/portage/eclass/* | sed -e 's/:.*$//' | sort | uniq
16
17 shows 39 eclasses which refer to mirror://
18
19 --
20 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
21 Gentoo Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××.com>