On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 14:09 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > The file should be placed in SRC_URI, and emirrordist will take care
> > > of fetching it.
> > What if the file is hosted at a non-standard tcp port upstream (like
> > http://example.org:8080/)? The devmanual says that it _must_ be manually
> > uploaded to /space/distfiles-local/ in such cases.
> 
> Or another example, app-emacs/vhdl-mode-3.38.1, where (incompetent,
> or nasty?) upstream blocks wget for some reason, but other methods
> (e.g., curl, firefox) work? How would I get the file onto the mirrors
> there?
> 

If I were you, I would've explicitly mirrored the file anyway.
If upstream blocks wget, then users who do not use GENTOO_MIRRORS will
also suffer due to it.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny