[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Exposing sync/* repositories better

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Hello, everyone.

TL;DR: should we expose "syncing" mirrors directly in our base
repositories.xml?


Per my previously announcement, I'd like to wind down the "public"
service of mirroring all Gentoo repositories, and limit it to the few
repositories we have control over -- at least ::gentoo and ::guru.  This
makes me want to reconsider how we're publishing these mirrors right
now.

Just to clarify, we are talking about these mirrors:

  https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo
  https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git

and:

  https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/guru
  https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/sync/guru.git

Currently, our primary repositories.xml file [1] lists only rsync
and the "standard" git repository.  The "mirror" repositories are
overimposed on them in a separate repository [2].  eselect-repo defaults
to using the latter.

What I'm wondering about is whether we should add the aforementioned
mirror repositories into the former repositories.xml, and sunset
the latter.  I think it would improve the consistency, given that
the "mirror" repository has the same contents as rsync (unlike
the "standard" repository) -- but I'm not sure if this won't break
somebody's workflow.

WDYT?


[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/tree/files/overlays/repositories.xml
[2] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/repos/repositories.xml

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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