Simon Stelling wrote:
> 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.Better yet, the new portage could download files by trying both kind of URLs (of course, only during the transition period). After portage team mark the new portage version stable on all arches and give the folks a chance to update their systems (6 months perhaps), infra team could make the transition to the new URLs the same way they're doing releases -> historical transitions (namely using hardlinks).
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