-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18-08-2011 08:50, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have already said this before, but it looks like nobody cared. We > have a problem for what concerns Gentoo-generated distfiles. > > This includes custom snapshots, custom packages, patches, patchsets, > and so on so forth. While it was infra that (back when I joined at > least) asked not to use dev.gentoo.org for hosting said fails and > rather prefer to use mirror://gentoo/, they already stated that it's > not a problem to do so until we have a proper system in place > (system that has been considered and worked on for quite a bit > already and yet is not available). > > Unfortunately, as long as the mirror://gentoo/ option is still > maintained, we'll end up with situations like today's gnuconfig that > couldn't be fetched, causing all ~arch users to see the same > failure, because the distfile wasn't uploaded to the staging area. > Of course the same could happen with a stable SRC_URI, but then it > would fail after hitting that, rather than going through half the > gentoo mirrors trying to find a file that is not there. > > So, anybody has reasons beside laziness, or concern for infra's disk > usage (that argument is allowed to come only from infra members!), > to not go this route?
Diego, I understand the concern, but instead of banning the use of mirror://gentoo, why not make it mandatory to have a dev.gentoo.org link in SRC_URI when there's a mirror://gentoo link? - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOTP2OAAoJEC8ZTXQF1qEPWnoP/jpHJAonBiWm7p6xp1AjuAaE t2vkFYFpxQRJ0IOYSaXh1Qrynhzc7ky5sT3G6/sLZPARfbCKinjWEXqGJMyvEsHU tkk4cRdTeoi1iCa8tDtMVgXCEVofhwYJZQvbm+rVRzwuGgks4kNxsVOlAcmPZ3iU tj9mfgFqKmhuNbFHe/fcPTkEFmCfyMFQdbt0btdk9PKOZK4MK39lEd6kifkNFRKp Xtzud3uttud+5bOJIQ4er2OthNQhQGEA2SUnS8M5TL0qZyQDfHNrxZGMwbCu/qqz vsldI6H6d0mCpuBDJ0WeFTcwwgSRCrM2+WiHsseJCUQODcSNkAikSvtaSNyx1LZg PDQt05m4cX4bQ1I2obwJUvvss7LrDUH9P0JRE+4SHQsPAPwUMNMl3wfPg+PTXXF+ EI1QVEySaMsbJE3czQ7x8stt7Ogzh54eswwKn7Z40yjByX95gH+Oy75ouZmNV5AX FEnnvpOCyOorc+K1ye+q26rwYHOndtuI/geGRHaF4HDpY+DKyzkq5Pj4v+m7/njP V1QzYbMu+CYeBlnpnvpQ690Kxayn9e2+5n6DDzoJw1SjBMfJcZ9RnqXJvi0+6uJ3 fuH/FR9iczxambDEgafACKLGXfaNUuIfDeeXK3Xf1qXp2JYfDNmR68HWN8a0hjBm SDk6u/zlsSpq6oYuUgAg =96T7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
