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

> On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 13:23 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> So, what has to be be done to have it appear in the proper place?
>> Should the file be placed in a subdir of /space/distfiles-local/?
>> That seems to be error prone, and certainly could be automated?

> The file should be placed in SRC_URI, and emirrordist will take care
> of fetching it.

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.

Ulrich