On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:34:14 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:00:16 -0500 > > "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanof...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> However, what alternative do we have to throwing the patches up in > >> a devspace? > > > > mirror://gentoo, aka /space/distfiles-local/ > > > > That isn't a great option. This has been discussed previously: > > https://lists.gt.net/gentoo/dev/224673?do=post_view_threaded > > > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts > > > I would point out that a devspace isn't the only alternative - > anything stable would be reasonable. So... 6 years later... still no solution ? Kid me not. I don't see what any other hosting style changes here: next time infra checks pecker homedirs, everyone will spend time manually removing old distfiles. For archival of sources, there has always been gentoo/src/patchsets. For extreme cases, there's distfiles-whitelist.
