Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

2019-10-22 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 10/21/2019 19:36, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:42 AM Richard Yao wrote: >> Also, another idea is to use a cheap hash function (e.g. fletcher) and just >> have the mirrors do the hashing behind the scenes. Then we would have the >> best of both worlds. > > It probably would

Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

2019-10-22 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 10/21/2019 06:13, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 16:57:54 -0400 > Joshua Kinard wrote: > >> I know we've got a ton of Perl packages for the core set of Perl modules, >> but doesn't the CPAN eclass also have the capability to auto-generate an >> ebuild package for virtually any Perl

Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

2019-10-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:42 PM Richard Yao wrote: > > Also, another idea is to use a cheap hash function (e.g. fletcher) and just > have the mirrors do the hashing behind the scenes. Then we would have the > best of both worlds. I think something that is getting missed in this discussion is t

Re: [gentoo-dev] The demotivating process of contributing to devmanual

2019-10-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 17:20 -0400, Gokturk Yuksek wrote: > I wish you communicated this particular frustration clearly before it > made you very angry. I'm sorry that I vented off here. I have explicitly requested in some of my pull requests that you can apply any wording changes directly but I g

[gentoo-dev] RFC: uid/gid 274 for dnsmasq_exporter

2019-10-22 Thread William Hubbs
All, I would like to allocate uid/gid 274 for dnsmasq_exporter [1]. Thanks, William [1] https://github.com/google/dnsmasq_exporter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: bzr.eclass

2019-10-22 Thread David Seifert
# @DEAD # No consumers in tree anymore, bzr is dead and py2 only # and will go away in the future. Removal in 30 days. [bzr.eclass]

Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

2019-10-22 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi, On 2019/10/22 10:43, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Jaco Kroon wrote: I also agree with others that it used to be easy to get distfiles as and when needed, so an alternative structure could mirror that of the portage tree itself, in other words "cat/pkg/distfile". Not a good id

Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

2019-10-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Jaco Kroon wrote: > I also agree with others that it used to be easy to get distfiles as > and when needed, so an alternative structure could mirror that of the > portage tree itself, in other words "cat/pkg/distfile". Not a good idea, because some distfiles are shared