commit: 0c1104ffe2897d1d0eea9ed6f0af61eaafd7559f Author: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Sun Nov 9 03:29:03 2025 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sun Nov 9 03:29:03 2025 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=0c1104ff
2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal: clarify in response to user feedback Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> ...2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal.en.txt | 23 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 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 5cf8fb0..1d26056 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 @@ -1,22 +1,31 @@ Title: Cache-enabled sync mirrors only for official repos Author: Michał Górny <[email protected]> Posted: 2025-10-07 -Revision: 2 +Revision: 3 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: app-eselect/eselect-repository Due to increasing maintenance costs and complexities, Gentoo is going to stop providing the cache-enabled git syncing mirrors found in the gentoo-mirror GitHub organization [1], and CI services for third-party -repositories. We will continue providing mirrors for a curated set of -official repositories, including ::gentoo, ::guru, ::kde, and ::science. -The remaining mirrors will be removed on 2025-10-30. +repositories. + +We will continue providing mirrors for a curated set of official repositories, +including ::gentoo, ::guru, ::kde, and ::science. The remaining mirrors will +be removed on 2025-10-30. + +This change does not affect users who have not used eselect-repository or +users who have not used the gentoo-mirror repositories. It has no impact +on syncing the Gentoo repository itself. It does not affect the availability +of these repositories via >=app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 and +repositories.xml -- the official upstream sync URI will be used instead. Users who have previously added repositories using <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: + eselect repository list -i # get list of repositories, and then... eselect repository remove ${repository} eselect repository enable ${repository} @@ -26,10 +35,4 @@ 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 -of these repositories via >=app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 -and repositories.xml -- the official upstream sync URI will be used -instead. - [1] https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/
