From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82B1613835A for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61AEBE09B8; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CF4BE09B8 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oystercatcher.gentoo.org (oystercatcher.gentoo.org [148.251.78.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01E3E335CC8 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5821B64A for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:28 +0000 (UTC) From: "Ulrich Müller" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Ulrich Müller" Message-ID: <1617816497.00f6bdcb2aed298e3d9c13b925811d1d35e39188.ulm@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/devmanual:master commit in: ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/ X-VCS-Repository: proj/devmanual X-VCS-Files: ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml X-VCS-Directories: ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/ X-VCS-Committer: ulm X-VCS-Committer-Name: Ulrich Müller X-VCS-Revision: 00f6bdcb2aed298e3d9c13b925811d1d35e39188 X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: 14ab1208-7641-4e0d-802c-a5c03ec9b8ef X-Archives-Hash: b5b92209dcadcf4f2bc3350ffb257905 commit: 00f6bdcb2aed298e3d9c13b925811d1d35e39188 Author: Sam James gentoo org> AuthorDate: Sun Mar 21 04:43:18 2021 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> CommitDate: Wed Apr 7 17:28:17 2021 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=00f6bdcb ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild: mention non-developers and large patches Signed-off-by: Sam James gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller gentoo.org> ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml b/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml index d8608be..7ef8254 100644 --- a/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml @@ -24,9 +24,15 @@ The Gentoo repository should only be used for storing .ebuild files, as well as any small companion files, such as patches or sample configuration files. These files should have a size of at most 20 KiB and must be placed in the mycat/mypkg/files directory, which can be referenced as -${FILESDIR} from within ebuilds. Larger patch files should be placed -in your developer space on dev.gentoo.org instead, in order to minimize -the repository size. +${FILESDIR} from within ebuilds. +

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+Larger patches should be placed in your developer space on dev.gentoo.org +instead of the tree, in order to minimize the repository size. +Non-developers such as proxied maintainers can host patches at some stable +location of their own there is no security issue here as the Manifest +will record patch checksums at the time of commit.