>>>>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Michał Górny wrote:

> On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 14:09 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> > What if the file is hosted at a non-standard tcp port upstream
>> > (like http://example.org:8080/)? The devmanual says that it _must_
>> > be manually uploaded to /space/distfiles-local/ in such cases.

>> Or another example, app-emacs/vhdl-mode-3.38.1, where (incompetent,
>> or nasty?) upstream blocks wget for some reason, but other methods
>> (e.g., curl, firefox) work? How would I get the file onto the mirrors
>> there?

> If I were you, I would've explicitly mirrored the file anyway.
> If upstream blocks wget, then users who do not use GENTOO_MIRRORS will
> also suffer due to it.

All what I'm saying is that there can be unusual circumstances where
manual uploading of a file is useful. So please don't take that
possibility away.

Ulrich