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 j45LGAHR023085 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:16:10 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DTnhZ-0001gw-F7 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 21:16:09 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTnlT-0002mf-CT for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 22:20:11 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:20:06 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ Message-ID: <20050505222006.736bf1c7@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> References: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Message-Flag: It's a feature, not a bug 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_22_20_07_+0100_CW=1W0Bk5Lg00X37"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 70d2cb7e-e47b-4aaa-90f2-b11c8be7306a X-Archives-Hash: a6692c3489784e05f190131bac2afce0 --Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_22_20_07_+0100_CW=1W0Bk5Lg00X37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 5 May 2005 14:04:20 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: | I've tried to dig through our policy documents, to find the policy | regarding RESTRICT=3Dmirror/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=3D[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=3Dnomirror, having a GPL-2 license, and distributed via | sourceforge? Wouldn't RESTRICT=3Dprimaryuri 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_22_20_07_+0100_CW=1W0Bk5Lg00X37 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCeo4K96zL6DUtXhERAiHrAJ9s8Jflt9ilj/ZnKeHi5/0xGBKc/ACgnKNy vHAgPhaxPpQY+4rhs0VH6+Q= =IsT0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_22_20_07_+0100_CW=1W0Bk5Lg00X37-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list