On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 00:24 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Today you get chastised for using /space/distfiles-local and not
> > following policy changes.  The devmanual states that it's deprecated
> > since at least 2011, and talks of using d.g.o [1].
>  > [1] 
> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts
> 
> Sorry I'm late to the party, but I would like to enquire about what happens 
> if a file with existing filename but different b2sum gets uploaded to 
> /space/distfiles-local now?

The same as before.  It gets put in top-level disfiles directory. 
Hashes are calculated from filenames, so this wouldn't affect it.  That
is, if it put those files in subdirectories in the first place because
it doesn't.

> Doing so and updating the Manifest used to be another (not necessarily 
> preferred) method to address upstream remaking release packages.
> 

It's no longer valid.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny