On 29-10-2019 05:27:37 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 00:24 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > Today you get chastised for using /space/distfiles-local and not
> > > following policy changes.  The devmanual states that it's deprecated
> > > since at least 2011, and talks of using d.g.o [1].
> >  > [1] 
> > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts
> > 
> > Sorry I'm late to the party, but I would like to enquire about what happens 
> > if a file with existing filename but different b2sum gets uploaded to 
> > /space/distfiles-local now?
> 
> The same as before.  It gets put in top-level disfiles directory. 
> Hashes are calculated from filenames, so this wouldn't affect it.  That
> is, if it put those files in subdirectories in the first place because
> it doesn't.

/space/distfiles-local is no longer copied to the mirrors? or just not
copied in the subdir-hierarchy?

> > Doing so and updating the Manifest used to be another (not necessarily 
> > preferred) method to address upstream remaking release packages.
> > 
> 
> It's no longer valid.

Just wondering.  Do you mean it isn't valid that some upstreams do this
(yes horror)?  We surely need a way to work around that ...

Thanks,
Fabian


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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level