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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] location for binary package files (when vendors don't provide them)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 20:55:46
Message-Id: 20031006205534.GA20029@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] location for binary package files (when vendors don't provide them) by Jason Wever
1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:39:35PM -0400, Jason Wever wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > Was wondering if we have a place to store binary package files when
5 > vendors themselves don't provide them for a particular os/arch combo, but
6 > are buildable from source.
7 >
8 > The one I have in mind now is OpenOffice.org 1.0.3. We've managed to get
9 > it to work on sparc, and would like to provide a binary for people so it
10 > doesn't take days to build, but would like someplace that would act as the
11 > SRC_URI for the particular file.
12 >
13 > I can always put it up on my dev.g.o home dir but I thought someplace that
14 > wouldn't disappear should a developer no longer be with the project would
15 > be better.
16 >
17 > Thanks,
18 > --
19 > Jason Wever
20 > Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead
21
22
23 You can put it in distfiles-local on dev.gentoo.org, then use
24 mirror://gentoo/<filename> as the SRC_URI in the ebuild.
25
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27 Jon Portnoy
28 avenj/irc.freenode.net
29
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