Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

[Alec Warner]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò
<flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 29/10/2011 alle 11.39 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal ha scritto:
>> app-text/unpaper/unpaper-0.3.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
>
> Removed unpaper-0.3 (I mirror a copy of the sources on my website, but I
> expect 0.4 to make muuuch more sense, since I've taken it over).
>
>> app-portage/conf-update/conf-update-1.0.1.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
>> app-portage/eix/eix-0.22.11.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
>> app-portage/eix/eix-0.22.5.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
>> app-portage/eix/eix-0.23.1.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
>> app-portage/eix/eix-0.23.2.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
>> app-portage/etc-proposals/etc-proposals-1.4.3-r2.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
>
> And this is what makes me concerned about using external resources for
> Gentoo-specific software... I suppose we should mirror these somewhere
> on Gentoo infra, given that we're probably the only ones interested in
> it. Volunteers?

We can't force people who write Gentoo specific software to host w/us
(that would be silly.) If upstream is dead then take a tarball and
clone it into a git repo; nothing is stopping you.

>
> For future reference: I'm striving to keep a local copy of any source
> file that Portage referenced and that I could fetch (that means even
> stuff that is mirror-restricted since I only fetch it and store it
> locally, not redistribute it), at least for the time my tinderbox has
> been running... so if you happen to stumble across this after Berlios
> shut down and you need some source file that was there, feel free to get
> in touch with me. Expect some latency though.
>
> --
> Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
>