Alec Warner wrote:
Taking the earlier comment ( changing files only on the mirrors ) there
are no portage changes that are technically required. However, you'd
need to change about 10000 ( random number I pulled out of my ass, but
there are many affected ) SRC_URI's to point to the new format, or
produce some sort of hack that translates between the two, and I
wouldn't be to fond of the latter effort, mostly because it would
probably rot in the tree for way too long ;)
I don't see how making portage translate mirror://gentoo/${P}.patch.bz2
to http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/${firstchar}/${P}.patch.bz2 is
worse than changing 10000 SRC_URIs.
> And you need to modify policy for placing files on the mirrors, but
> thats not a portage problem either; from the portage POV the change is
> relatively seamless.
That should be a one-time effort for one person anyway. I guess it's not
too hard to make a script that puts the stuff in
toucan:/space/distfiles-local into the right dir.
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Kind Regards,
Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Member
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