On 10/12/04  Chris Gianelloni wrote:

> The developer would use this temporary location as follows:
> 
> 1. developer creates an ebuild which needs a patch
> 2. developer puts SRC_URI="patches.gentoo.org/${P}-$patchname" in the
> ebuild, at the end of the SRC_URI definition

make that 
SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/patchname http://patches.gentoo.org/patchname"
($GENTOO_MIRRORS can be empty)

> 3. developer uploads patch to dev.gentoo.org:/space/patches-local and
> dev.gentoo.org:/space/distfiles-local

I don't see a reason to separate patches from distfiles.

> 4. developer commits ebuild(s) to cvs
> 
> The patch would replicate to the rsync boxes and would be available
> via http immediately.
> 
> Remember that portage tries the Gentoo mirrors in ${GENTOO_MIRRORS}
> before checking SRC_URI, so once the files hit the community mirrors,
> the temporary location in SRC_URI would no longer be used.

As I said: $GENTOO_MIRRORS can be empty so you also need the
mirror://gentoo part ($GENTOO_MIRRORS will still be checked first).

Marius