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 1Q0Im0-0005Hb-3x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:22:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AC4AE05B1; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:22:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56FBE05A1 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxb39 with SMTP id 39so3710448vxb.40 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:21:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=unrNrNcwdtoaFI3VCqpTbZxMCj9GdXGzBNa3O3kb++8=; b=MChISkJe60qJSB8dFMnhIhJ/7IUojTjEY8e6k4LAy7grduB/olf6PtdZVjkRb1PG02 ZwLvlhNv973JoqtQZ3cDXgGxdEEiHpR2s9umfceE4i+0q7DjShc5yCN7Bz6zxrb4OND2 U3maK66IrD3yo5K+KrfCQjPC5hS5SobjPRtwQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=tSPXNJ+PJiT559/fl01ceSkFFJc1G95yTnukOJqPnfUQWT7Q7ImjuEDTDS5QvCvivq yTtUyR1+7rYoFQ39a615XQY34QncDx/h4LZBR7VW4xoG2ncTFXwDKnFYfbwlyhBR1RT2 ifB37UPIt3z5agOX9F2Ejl7IVhDu7p2svYIFc= 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 Received: by 10.52.67.103 with SMTP id m7mr158445vdt.178.1300389640379; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: neurogeekster@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.169.129 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:20:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1295484635.2390.75.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> References: <1295484635.2390.75.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:20:40 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mNJjEqRroynkeaGvfB2EZdZXrXc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles From: "Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 240278a65228b1576f974add4b3c6aa5 Hi all, On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Diego Elio Petten=F2 = wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. > > If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is > reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use > the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these. > This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if > the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs > team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before. So, after all that, I'm not really clear if we are enforcing this, or not. A have a patchset. I put it in my devspace as suggested here. Is this right or should I still use the mirror://gentoo as the devmanual suggests? Thanks, --=20 Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) Gentoo Developer