Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:56:06
Message-Id: 440D1FC7.3010206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles by "Jan Kundrát"
1 Jan Kundrát wrote:
2
3 >Alin Nastac wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>this has been discussed before.
7 >>summary: tarballs could be used by more than one package. this way
8 >>you'll manage to increase the disk space demands for our mirrors.
9 >>
10 >>
11 >
12 >This one is about sorting by first letter of filename. It won't solve
13 >multiple different files with same filename, though.
14 >
15 >
16 >
17 I know what is this about, but Stuart was trying to reopen that old thread.
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19 You can't solve the name conflict in a generic fashion without
20 increasing required resorces from our mirrors (either disk space or CPU
21 + RAM).
22 Since probability of such conflict is very low, I say better solve one
23 conflict at a time, by hosting a renamed version of those files on
24 mirror://gentoo.

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