Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 5 May 2005 14:04:20 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson"
<robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
| I've tried to dig through our policy documents, to find the policy
| regarding RESTRICT=mirror/fetch. I don't find anything in the htdocs
| tree from CVS, beyond a few brief mentions in the handbook.

Some of it's in the "not policy" documents:

http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/general-concepts/mirrors/

Contributions welcomed if someone knows exactly what the rules are :)

| RESTRICT=[no]mirror
| -------------------
| - Files too large for the mirrors? (What is the size limit?)
| - License issues?
| - anything else?

AFAIK it's now just licence issues.

| 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.

Now that primaryuri exists, yes. That's a fairly recent feature,
however.

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