Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors

[Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gentoo@asokolov.org>]

21.03.2025 13:32, Michał Górny пишет:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories,
> except for gentoo and guru.
>
>
> Over 10 years ago, I've started the repository mirror & CI project.
> What started as a bunch of shell scripts on a user-donated server, has
> organically grown into a bigger bunch of shell scripts managed by Infra.
> Nevertheless, it's still a bunch of hacks glued together.
>
> Things don't work well all the time.  Sometimes stuff randomly crashes,
> and I have to SSH and remove local checkouts to make it work.  Sometimes
> the git repositories used to transfer logs grow so big they kill infra.
> Often some repository starts crashing this or another part and needs to
> be disabled.
>
> To be honest, I have no energy to keep maintaining this.  I'm really
> tired of having to deal with stuff crashing and spamming my mailbox with
> failure mails.  I'm tired of having to go through all the infra hoops
> just to disable another repository that can't work for one reason or
> another.  In fact, I'm even tired that whenever people add new
> repositories to api.gentoo.org, I have to go through that idiotic GitHub
> clickety-click UI to stop receiving notifications for everything that
> happens in these repositories.
>
> So what I'm thinking about is winding most of the project down.  We'd
> stop mirroring third-party repositories, and remove most of gentoo-
> mirror organization.  What I'd like to leave is mirroring of gentoo
> and guru repositories, since these two we have control of, and are very
> important to Gentoo users.
>
> So, well, unless someone convinces me otherwise, I'm going to disable
> all other repositories over the next weekend, and remove their mirrors.
> Gentoo and GURU will still be mirrored, and CI will keep running
> as usual.
>
Hi, if you just disable it, it'll break setup of everyone who uses 
/etc/portage/repos.conf/eselect-repo.conf, right?