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On Sunday 22 March 2009, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> > I think you will encounter namespace collisions, thats why I CC'd |
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> > zac as he maintains mirror-dist ;p |
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> Why the hell didn't we think of this before!? :o |
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> The mirror-dist script *cannot* rename the upstream files for |
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> storage, since emerge will be looking for the *original* filename on |
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> the gentoo mirror. And if we keep them the same, we'll have |
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> collisions on the mirror, which is more probable (and severe) than a |
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> collision on a user's local DISTDIR. |
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> The easiest solution I can think of is for emerge to give special |
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> consideration to the mirrors in GENTOO_MIRRORS, and look for the |
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> renamed file there instead of the original ones. |
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No reason to panic. :-) |
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This is what Portage already does and what is specified in EAPI=2. |
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Refer to the paragraph quoted by Ciaran earlier in this thread. |
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Do we have a reason to believe our mirror scripts do not already handle |
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this correctly? Because to me it seems they do. |
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$ ebuild bashburn-3.0.ebuild unpack |
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Downloading 'http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/BashBurn-3.0.tar.gz' |
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--2009-03-22 15:48:57-- |
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http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/BashBurn-3.0.tar.gz |
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Resolving ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de... 130.133.110.66 |
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Connecting to ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de|130.133.110.66|:80... |
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connected. |
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK |
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Length: 84435 (82K) [application/octet-stream] |
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Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/BashBurn-3.0.tar.gz' |
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... |
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$ G |
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ENTOO_MIRRORS="" ebuild bashburn-3.0.ebuild unpack |
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Downloading 'http://bashburn.dose.se/index.php?s=file_download&id=3' |
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--2009-03-22 15:49:12-- |
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http://bashburn.dose.se/index.php?s=file_download&id=3 |
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Resolving bashburn.dose.se... 90.227.105.216 |
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Connecting to bashburn.dose.se|90.227.105.216|:80... connected. |
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK |
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Length: unspecified [application/octet-stream] |
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Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/BashBurn-3.0.tar.gz' |
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.... |
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Robert |
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