Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming mirror cleansing

[Brian Harring]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 05:54:40PM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote:
> Brian Harring wrote:
>
> >Why this matters- around 10,000 files out of 28,600 files will be
> >removed from the mirrors network.  Either
> >
> >A) no ebuild claims that distfile.  it's orphaned on our mirrors
> >B) RESTRICT="fetch" is set for the ebuild.  We don't mirror those
> >   files.
> >C) RESTRICT="mirror" is set for the ebuild.  Again, we don't mirror
> >   those files, in this case we defer to another network (I don't make
> >   the rules, that's just how it's done)
> >
> >
> >
> You should not erase files newer than an arbitrary amount of time (a
> week maybe?).
> Don't forget about dev.g.o:/space/distfiles-local; a dev first put the
> tarball in that folder _then_ submit the ebuild who use it.
Files that are orphaned from ebuilds (this includes distfiles-local 
uploaded files) are marked for death, and have a week till they're 
removed from the mirrors.  They're stored for an additional 2 weeks, 
then deleted.

There's a bit more to it then that, but the short version is that 
there are reasaonable delays built into the auto cleansing.
~brian
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