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

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 08:20 -0700, Jay Faulkner wrote:
> On 3/21/2025 6:42 PM, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 02:32:31PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > Hello, everyone.
> > > 
> > > TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories,
> > > except for gentoo and guru.
> > Unfortunate, but just to say that I have nothing to say against
> > dropping these if it's a maintenance burden.
> > 
> > > 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.
> > Had one concern but complete removal (rather than keeping mirrors
> > archived) would mostly handle it. Aka so that users can't keep
> > sync'ing with these dead mirrors by mistake (often caused issues when
> > we removed overlays but mirror stayed behind, users wouldn't notice a
> > thing until lacking updates started to break things).
> 
> 
> In the OpenStack community, we will put a final commit on HEAD of the 
> primary branch removing all the content and putting an EOL notice in the 
> readme (e.g. https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic-lib ). This may be a 
> good solution in this case as well, potentially?
> 

Not sure.  It would mean that `emerge --sync` will replace all ebuilds
with a README file that user might not even notice.  I suppose
an explicit "repository not found" error may be better here.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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