commit: 29dac598efafc712a79eece8de15b55ebfc81748 Author: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Nov 7 23:45:41 2025 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Nov 7 23:45:41 2025 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=29dac598
2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal: mention GitHub behaviour especially We've had a few users confused about this on the forums and IRC. Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> .../2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal.en.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal.en.txt b/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal.en.txt index 10bde83..5cf8fb0 100644 --- a/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal.en.txt +++ b/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal/2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal.en.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Cache-enabled sync mirrors only for official repos Author: Michał Górny <[email protected]> Posted: 2025-10-07 -Revision: 1 +Revision: 2 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: app-eselect/eselect-repository @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ official repositories, including ::gentoo, ::guru, ::kde, and ::science. The remaining mirrors will be removed on 2025-10-30. Users who have previously added repositories using -<app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 may need to re-add these repositories +<app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 will need to re-add these repositories with >=app-eselect/eselect-repository-15, in order to update their sync URIs. For example, the following can be used: @@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ URIs. For example, the following can be used: Once the mirrors are discontinued, we are going to remove them entirely in order to trigger sync errors for the remaining users, and ensure -that they are not stuck on non-updated mirrors. +that they are not stuck on non-updated mirrors. This may show up as +a 'username/password' prompt as GitHub does this for deleted repositories: +if that happens, please follow the above instructions if not done so already! This change does not affect users who have not used eselect-repository or the gentoo-mirror repositories. It does not affect the availability
