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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:51:59AM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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> Alec Warner wrote: |
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> >> Those get uploaded and look fine but after 6 months they are suddenly |
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> >> being removed by the script. |
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> > There is a distfiles whitelist[1] for this exact purpose...isn't there? |
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> > [1] |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/mirrors/overview-distfile.xml |
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> Thanks for the heads up. I was not aware of this when I was looking for a |
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> solution badly back then. Must be a rather recent development. Looks easy |
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> and straightforward - even deleting is possible. Good job, guys :) |
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I added whitelist over 18 months ago... not a new feature, although |
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infra finally updated the documentation to finally be accurate :) |
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And correcting vapier in this email, mirror-dist has been running the |
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show since around 04/05 - 05/05; not june/july of this year... |
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> Still the developer needs to know about it and think of it in the moment of |
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> adding mirror restrictions to an ebuild with mirror://gentoo sources. A |
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> risk that is not going to be taken in any of my ebuilds. |
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Whitelist protects files that have a long term (> 2 weeks) refcount of |
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0; freebsd stages being the usual example [1]. mirror restricted |
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ebuilds that have mirror://gentoo/ (and just mirror://gentoo/) have a |
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refcount of 1, thus they do *not* need to be whitelisted. |
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In general, ebuild maintainers have no valid reason to be screwing |
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with whitelists unless they're doing stages, or (odd case) need to |
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ensure a file is on mirrors for test purposes, mirrorselect in this |
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case. |
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Thats a polite way of saying the impolite "stick random crap in the |
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whitelist, and I'll make a dev cut off your balls" :) |
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Whitelist totally bypasses all measures to keep the mirror image at a |
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sane size; it's intended strictly for material that is *not* ref'd by |
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an ebuild, and has a *valid* reason to be in the mirror tier. |
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Short version: if you're not a stage monkey, you shouldn't be touching |
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whitelists. |
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> I hope the people that prefer mirror://gentoo know about the issue and the |
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> solution :) |
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Think you need to lay out other reasons... thus far you seem to be |
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forgetting about a change *you* forced through. |
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~harring |
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[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/infra/distfiles/failure.xml#doc_chap6 |
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