From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4E2B138334 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 08:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02BCAE0B61; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 08:46:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from othala.iewc.co.za (othala.iewc.co.za [IPv6:2c0f:f720:0:3:21e:67ff:fe14:6ae5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A642CE0B3B for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 08:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [165.16.203.58] (helo=tauri.local.uls.co.za) by othala.iewc.co.za with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92.2) (envelope-from ) id 1iMpoM-00057N-NU; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:46:38 +0200 Received: from plastiekpoot.dhcp.uls.co.za ([192.168.42.106]) by tauri.local.uls.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.92.2) (envelope-from ) id 1iMpoF-0003W0-Oh; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:46:35 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Ulrich Mueller Cc: Richard Yao References: <752be6c75f337df8ee8124a804247d2fb27e73b4.camel@gentoo.org> <73f461e5-d224-6aec-48be-f7e0cf8e077f@uls.co.za> From: Jaco Kroon Organization: Ultimate Linux Solutions (Pty) Ltd Message-ID: <86d0c75c-c38b-848b-d43a-3c0b28467a5a@uls.co.za> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:46:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.2 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-GB X-Spam-report: Relay access (othala.iewc.co.za). X-Archives-Salt: f38b8ef8-197a-41f6-bf85-d3ba1acb1317 X-Archives-Hash: 00dc2a41ece02000c45348a6223b2660 Hi, On 2019/10/22 10:43, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> I also agree with others that it used to be easy to get distfiles as >> and when needed, so an alternative structure could mirror that of the >> portage tree itself, in other words "cat/pkg/distfile". > Not a good idea, because some distfiles are shared between packages. > For example, sys-kernel/*-sources use the same distfiles. (It won't > work with categories either, e.g., there are dev-lang/ruby and > app-emacs/ruby-mode.) > > Ulrich You are absolutely correct.  I then fully agree with current implementation. Kind Regards, Jaco