From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19793 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 20:24:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31086 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 20:24:30 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:24:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030722125848.GW23209@mail.lieber.org> <200307221524.14106.scandium@gentoo.org> <200307252104.46511.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200307252104.46511.stuart@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_6HZI/84xgYl6cf2"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307252224.26834.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors X-Archives-Salt: 463971c2-1d30-4cba-9ea9-f97cfe7eed97 X-Archives-Hash: 9ea9099ff5d1932c4e92ef28a2089c1a --Boundary-02=_6HZI/84xgYl6cf2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 25 July 2003 22:04, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > If the source code's in our distfiles mirror system, we're immune from any > changes / withdrawals made elsewhere. Our ebuilds will continue to work > until the package itself breaks, or we choose to replace it. > > But if we're not mirroring the source code, then the ebuild breaks as soon > as the source code tarball/rpm/whatever is withdrawn from the author's > master site. It shouldn't be a big problem, but it's worth thinking abou= t. > To battle such an event we could choose to automatically mirror the origina= l=20 location, and have a fill in file to come into place as soon as a file is=20 removed from such a mirror. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_6HZI/84xgYl6cf2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/IZH6bKx5DBjWFdsRAscEAKCwaATZSdRNfO93AVhQR+kMwoyLzgCgkkpb 7LtiE3gjK+bKRkpPd1QbnFk= =oYg0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_6HZI/84xgYl6cf2--