From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j45M6vkA010114 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 22:06:58 GMT Received: from [12.10.10.250] (helo=[127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DToUj-0000ZY-MR for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 22:06:57 +0000 Message-ID: <427A98E6.70604@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 17:06:30 -0500 From: Lance Albertson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ References: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <200505051801.29728.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200505051801.29728.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1AF16881690B44ACF09E5461" X-Archives-Salt: 2e36af66-7356-4667-8f85-446259177700 X-Archives-Hash: 783602b67df63d2c8af71e2fb0df5422 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1AF16881690B44ACF09E5461 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Frysinger wrote: [snip] >>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. [snip] >>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 ;) -- Lance Albertson Gentoo Infrastructure | Operational Manager --- Public GPG key: Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net --------------enig1AF16881690B44ACF09E5461 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCepjmQW+hXSf0t0IRAoKUAKDWVU1Wj4Pd+b2MspOdr+NywN9IUACbBmQo XXqekktNvODcN1rQvQPxNWA= =p715 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1AF16881690B44ACF09E5461-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list