Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

[Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>]

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Mike Frysinger wrote:

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>>RESTRICT=[no]mirror
>>-------------------
>>- Files too large for the mirrors? (What is the size limit?)
> 
> 
> yes ...

We should probably have a hard definition for this or expectations to the rule
too. Let me look through our current distfiles and see how big we really get on
a few things. I'd say anything more than a few hundred megs is a bit too much,
but thats just my rough guess.

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>>Unless there is something I've missed, why do we have ebuilds with
>>RESTRICT=nomirror, having a GPL-2 license, and distributed via
>>sourceforge? Wouldn't RESTRICT=primaryuri be much better? Most fetches
>>would go to SF first, and we'd still have a copy available on our
>>mirrors.
> 
> 
> because a while back someone got the big idea that if someone provides a 
> mirroring system (like sourceforge), we should let users abuse those mirrors 
> instead of gentoo mirrors ... subsequently, people started sticking RESTRICT 
> into the ebuilds ...
> 
> we have since decided that was a dumb idea (which i agree with) but no one 
> cared to go through portage and revert the RESTRICT ... i just do it when i 
> happen to notice it updating old ebuilds

We could make a couple of bugs for each category and get those folks to fixing
them. But then that would require a lot of work and I know we're all just a
bunch of lazy bums anyways ;)

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