[gentoo-dev] mirror stats update (important)

[Brian Harring]

Hola all.
The beast mirror stats xml page now lives at 
http://dev.gentoo.org/distfile-mirroring/failure.xml
rather then my devspace.  The page will get overhauled to be a bit 
better looking, and proper xml whenever I get the chance.

Aside from that, devs- if you have a files that you need kept on the 
mirrors, despite no ebuild claiming it from the tree (freebsd's files 
for gentoo-bsd is a perfect example), add the filename to 
/space/distfiles-whitelist/current , which is a symlink to the current 
month (2005-04 is the current link fex).

So... what does the date mean?  It means the file will be on the 
mirrors for 6 months, and then no longer whitelisted.  Sorry, no 
indefinite whitelisting (it'll bloat the mirror).  If you have files 
whitelisted that you don't need on the mirrors anymore, just remove 
any matching entry from /mnt/distfiles-whitelist/ files, and it'll be 
removed w/in a week.

If your 6 month's are almost up, re-add the files to the current 
month, and you'll have 6 more months.  Note, you best have a good 
reason for doing this, indefinitely whitelisting files _will_ catch my 
attention :)

I've added in the freebsd files I knew of for the bsd crew; please 
follow the format I've used in the file-

# who added it (eg: who's responsible)
# what they're for, when they're expected to be removed
file1
file2
file3


If a line doesn't start with #, it's consider a file name.  One file 
per line.  After adding an entry to the file, it's your responsibility 
to ensure the file isn't listed for deletion (eg, check back in 24 
hours).  I'll add a section for "these files are whitelisted" in the 
next day or so.

If you have any questions, nows the time to ask.
~brian
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