Hi all, On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced > distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some > people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is > to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-local on > dev.g.o. Please don't do this. > > If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is > reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use > the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these. > This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if > the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs > team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before.
So, after all that, I'm not really clear if we are enforcing this, or not. A have a patchset. I put it in my devspace as suggested here. Is this right or should I still use the mirror://gentoo as the devmanual suggests? Thanks, -- Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) Gentoo Developer
