On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:12:30 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now that we have the official git repository, I've switched user-facing
> git mirrors from rsync->git to the real git. As a result, users are now
> complaining that some random Gentoo metadata has disappeared.
> 
> As you may have noticed already, I am *really* unhappy about adding
> special conditionals with hardcoded URLs (and ugly mixing stuff) for
> Gentoo. So if you really don't want to put the stuff into the repo,
> please at least:

IMO the best way will be to put mandatory stuff in the
repo/gentoo.git.
 
> 1. Move DTDs to a git repository (seriously, I don't want to have to
> touch CVS).
> 
> 2. Strip the year from gentoo-news [1]. I think we have all
> the agreement to proceed there. I will prepare a GLEP update today,
> and if given OK, I can update the repo, and the scripts.
> 
> 3. Provide a machine-readable description where those files/directories
> come from. Not sure how that should look but how about something along
> the lines of repos.conf:
> 
>   metadata/external-repos.conf::
> 
>     [gentoo-news]
>     location = metadata/news
>     sync-type = git
>     sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-news.git
> 
>     [herds]
>     location = metadata/herds.xml
>     # or do we want to use git here?
>     sync-type = http
>     sync-uri = https://api.gentoo.org/packages/herds.xml
> 
> Comments?
> 
> [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523828
> 


Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko