From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j45LxcZ4009978 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:59:38 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DToNe-0003i4-AB for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 21:59:38 +0000 Received: (qmail 19383 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 17:52:57 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 5 May 2005 17:52:57 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 18:01:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> In-Reply-To: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505051801.29728.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 766e7053-8f0f-466e-9278-7b1f15336411 X-Archives-Hash: f47f59f727c02d0a6a126eea6a8fc73c On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:04 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > RESTRICT=[no]fetch > ------------------ > Should be used if the license prohibits unattended/automated download > (eg click-through licenses), or the upstream author wants all downloads > to be manually done from their site (I know of at least one package > where this is true). correct > RESTRICT=[no]mirror > ------------------- > - Files too large for the mirrors? (What is the size limit?) yes ... > - License issues? right, some people dont allow us to redistribute (like some games) > - anything else? > > Unless there is something I've missed, why do we have ebuilds with > RESTRICT=nomirror, having a GPL-2 license, and distributed via > sourceforge? Wouldn't RESTRICT=primaryuri be much better? Most fetches > would go to SF first, and we'd still have a copy available on our > mirrors. because a while back someone got the big idea that if someone provides a mirroring system (like sourceforge), we should let users abuse those mirrors instead of gentoo mirrors ... subsequently, people started sticking RESTRICT into the ebuilds ... we have since decided that was a dumb idea (which i agree with) but no one cared to go through portage and revert the RESTRICT ... i just do it when i happen to notice it updating old ebuilds -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list