Re: [gentoo-mirrors] New distfile mirror deployment: hardlinks or symlinks?

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 10:36 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Michał Górny (mgorny@g.o) wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 12:33:52AM -03:
> > TL;DR: shortly, distfiles will need to be present under two paths for
> > the transitional period.  Would you prefer us using hardlinks or
> > symlinks for that?
>
> We (gentoo.c3sl.ufpr.br) prefer symlinks.
>
> BTW, I think we're a packages mirror now, we'd be happy to also be a distfile.
> How can we proceed to do it? Is it interesting for the community?

I'm sorry for replying this late.  I had hoped somebody more
knowledgeable about the process would answer.

I think the relevant documentation is at:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Mirrors/Source

I can't talk for the whole community but I think they would appreciate
every new mirror ;-).

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Best regards,
Michał Górny