[gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[David Shakaryan]

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Excerpt from the official site:
"BerliOS Developer is a free service to Open Source developers offering
easy access to the best in CVS/SVN, mailing lists, bug tracking, message
boards/forums, task management, site hosting, permanent file archival,
full backups, and total web-based administration."

To summarise the above sentence, it is a service similar to SourceForge.
Although BerliOS currently has only three mirrors, this would most
probably change as the number of projects hosted by BerliOS increases.

As of writing this email, BerliOS is hosting 4842 projects. There are
206(?) files being fetched from BerliOS by ebuilds in the tree. This was
counted per ebuild, not per package.

The proposed mirror name is 'berlios' and the three mirrors are:
- http://download.berlios.de
- http://download2.berlios.de
- ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub
Something along the lines of mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2 can be
used in SRC_URI.

I'm sure all of you understand that not much work would be necessary for
the the transition as it can occur over time, for example when package
maintainers modify an ebuild. So, what do you folks think?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Monday 18 December 2006 23:00, David Shakaryan wrote:
> I'm sure all of you understand that not much work would be necessary for
> the the transition as it can occur over time, for example when package
> maintainers modify an ebuild. So, what do you folks think?
Good for me..

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[David Shakaryan]

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Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> I had asked about it once and was told that berlios mirrors are 
> unreliable(changing files) and should be avoided. Although things change, so 
> is it still the case?

Unless BerliOS changes the URL of one of their mirrors (such as from
download.berlios.de to something else), this shouldn't be relevant. The
file names for the actual packages are up to the project. If such a
large change was to occur, having berlios in thirdpartymirrors would
only help, as we'd only have to change it there, and not in every ebuild.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:30:33 +0100 Piotr Jaroszyński <peper@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| > I'm sure all of you understand that not much work would be
| > necessary for the the transition as it can occur over time, for
| > example when package maintainers modify an ebuild. So, what do you
| > folks think?
| 
| I had asked about it once and was told that berlios mirrors are 
| unreliable(changing files) and should be avoided. Although things
| change, so is it still the case?

They stopped doing this when we contacted them and asked them not to.

(The issue was that they had a download script that added a few bytes of
watermarking onto the end of tarballs.)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[Matthias Schwarzott]

On Monday 18 December 2006 23:00, David Shakaryan wrote:
> Excerpt from the official site:
> "BerliOS Developer is a free service to Open Source developers offering
> easy access to the best in CVS/SVN, mailing lists, bug tracking, message
> boards/forums, task management, site hosting, permanent file archival,
> full backups, and total web-based administration."
>

>
> The proposed mirror name is 'berlios' and the three mirrors are:
> - http://download.berlios.de
> - http://download2.berlios.de
> - ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub
> Something along the lines of mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2 can be
> used in SRC_URI.
>
> I'm sure all of you understand that not much work would be necessary for
> the the transition as it can occur over time, for example when package
> maintainers modify an ebuild. So, what do you folks think?

Hm, I think this should be fine.
I only have one point against this: Has the issue of different files for every 
download be solved?
Thread listed here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/36077

Matthias

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 00:09, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> I only have one point against this: Has the issue of different files for
> every download be solved?
As far as I know, it was.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[David Shakaryan]

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David Shakaryan wrote:
> - ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub

It looks like this isn't exactly the same as the http mirrors, so make
that two mirrors.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for adding berlios to thirdpartymirrors.

[David Shakaryan]

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David Shakaryan wrote:
> The proposed mirror name is 'berlios' and the three mirrors are:
> - http://download.berlios.de
> - http://download2.berlios.de
> - ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub

Added, with the exception of the third. See my previous post[1] to this
thread for a reason.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/44845

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