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On 29-10-2019 05:27:37 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 00:24 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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> > Hi! |
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> > > Today you get chastised for using /space/distfiles-local and not |
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> > > following policy changes. The devmanual states that it's deprecated |
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> > > since at least 2011, and talks of using d.g.o [1]. |
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> > > [1] |
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> > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts |
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> > Sorry I'm late to the party, but I would like to enquire about what happens |
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> > if a file with existing filename but different b2sum gets uploaded to |
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> > /space/distfiles-local now? |
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> The same as before. It gets put in top-level disfiles directory. |
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> Hashes are calculated from filenames, so this wouldn't affect it. That |
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> is, if it put those files in subdirectories in the first place because |
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> it doesn't. |
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/space/distfiles-local is no longer copied to the mirrors? or just not |
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copied in the subdir-hierarchy? |
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> > Doing so and updating the Manifest used to be another (not necessarily |
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> > preferred) method to address upstream remaking release packages. |
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> It's no longer valid. |
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Just wondering. Do you mean it isn't valid that some upstreams do this |
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(yes horror)? We surely need a way to work around that ... |
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Thanks, |
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Fabian |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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