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 95774138334 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79DF9E0B00; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (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 2FF48E0AD6 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-il1-f180.google.com (mail-il1-f180.google.com [209.85.166.180]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A347534C19F for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-il1-f180.google.com with SMTP id s75so3940542ilc.3 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:36:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAX1noCnHtK1k6mAZW2380K2kXDxqeBuENWf3dJbdd/W9l4V96gj lsV/UI78W/AP4NlZL6ofY0ENgO+PLbbJmposcOI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyHWnalNtuZ7aHi/oBKGrRJq2XI5NCPtq+CA0BZmavQkmsGURG89Mc053PLtkF47WcEr3uXRhGmYcpLHgDMk1U= X-Received: by 2002:a92:d784:: with SMTP id d4mr28520631iln.110.1571701015682; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:36:55 -0700 (PDT) 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 References: <752be6c75f337df8ee8124a804247d2fb27e73b4.camel@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: From: Matt Turner Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:36:41 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout To: gentoo development Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: baf47043-b8fe-463f-98ce-03379fc00dd8 X-Archives-Hash: 65cc77eb4f1dba356783df17cc556d06 On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:42 AM Richard Yao wrote: > Also, another idea is to use a cheap hash function (e.g. fletcher) and just have the mirrors do the hashing behind the scenes. Then we would have the best of both worlds. It probably would have been better to make these suggestions when the GLEP was discussed close to two years ago. I'm glad that we have ideas for improvements but I worry that we're just backseat driving at this point given that the GLEP's now implemented.