Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming mirror cleansing

[Alin Nastac <mrness@gentoo.org>]

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Brian Harring wrote:

>Why this matters- around 10,000 files out of 28,600 files will be 
>removed from the mirrors network.  Either
>
>A) no ebuild claims that distfile.  it's orphaned on our mirrors
>B) RESTRICT="fetch" is set for the ebuild.  We don't mirror those 
>   files.
>C) RESTRICT="mirror" is set for the ebuild.  Again, we don't mirror 
>   those files, in this case we defer to another network (I don't make 
>   the rules, that's just how it's done)
>
>  
>
You should not erase files newer than an arbitrary amount of time (a
week maybe?).
Don't forget about dev.g.o:/space/distfiles-local; a dev first put the
tarball in that folder _then_ submit the ebuild who use it.

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