From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PfzSY-0005Jz-1P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:42:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AECC8E0ACC; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from whirlpool.farbfinsternis.net (static.88-198-16-106.clients.your-server.de [88.198.16.106]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C060E0AA0 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.178.25] (cable-95-168-144-40.cust.telecolumbus.net [95.168.144.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by whirlpool.farbfinsternis.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D0E02E00A for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:41:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D3881CD.8000403@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:41:17 +0100 From: Matti Bickel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles References: <1295484635.2390.75.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> In-Reply-To: <1295484635.2390.75.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig997F4D9CCD6A8CAD4D38D3A3" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 68412a9d47f9814f1370ea380cba8620 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig997F4D9CCD6A8CAD4D38D3A3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01/20/2011 01:50 AM, Diego Elio Petten=C3=B2 wrote: > I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced > distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some > people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is > to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-local on > dev.g.o. Please don't do this. As one of those under the impression that mirror://gentoo was the right choice: why is it bad? =46rom Fauli's post I gather the emacs team wanted to support ancient versions and have all files necessary to install an ebuild whatsoever it's age. In my case, that would mean installing php-4.0, for example. Why on earth should I support something like that? If I'm PHP upstream, okay, maybe allow others to see the evolution of the language. But the evolution of the php patchset? Sounds not that necessary to me. So, I'm not opposed to your idea. If ya want to archive your stuff forever, by all means do it. I just see no point in forcing this on all devs. So, care to explain or give me pointer on why this is necessary? Thanks, Matti --------------enig997F4D9CCD6A8CAD4D38D3A3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk04gdMACgkQfNMcoUhJ7GzNOQCeIog5qWmfnrE3x1GwrK1mVmAa odEAn3hGp0866KHQ3FjxSVkE2mNJd3kT =BG5C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig997F4D9CCD6A8CAD4D38D3A3--