Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Split distfile mirror directory structure

[R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 01/26/2018 06:24 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>
>> The alternate option of using file hash has the advantage of having
>> a more balanced split.  Furthermore, since hashes are stored
>> in Manifests using them is zero-cost.  However, this solution has two
>> significant disadvantages:
>>
>> 1. The hash values are unknown for newly-downloaded distfiles, so
>>    ``repoman`` (or an equivalent tool) would have to use a temporary
>>    directory before locating the file in appropriate subdirectory.
>>
>> 2. User-provided distfiles (e.g. for fetch-restricted packages) with
>>    hash mismatches would be placed in the wrong subdirectory,
>>    potentially causing confusing errors.
>>
>
> The filename proposal sounds fine,

I've had to interact with the distfile server by hand, and would
appreciate it if the files can be maintained in some way that finding
them is obvious without tools.

Every once and a while I navigate to the distfile root and need to
forcefully exit Firefox.

Cheers,
     R0b0t1