To my fellow Gentoo Devlopers and Users, The Gentoo Infrastructure team proposed this idea in june 2006 * Reduce mirror time for Gentoo specific patches/tarballs * Offer an official location for Gentoo specific patches/tarballs (Instead of using dev.g.o, this would be the official place) * Offer a distributed (3+ servers) mirror rotation for this
This would be the "official" location for those distfiles when infra makes it available. I am asking them for status reports on this you will maybe see some here :) But for the meantime I am using http://gentooexperimental.org/~genstef/dist for this purpose. The reason is that I can remove and add stuff there myself and can keep control of what gets deleted. I can use my favourite scripts to create distfiles and keep them ordered. For example I am using this for firefox-2.0. This workaround I initially had to use when I discovered a bug in the mirroring script that was annoying me regularly. The mirroring script does ignore all RESTRICT=mirror SRC_URIs even those at mirror://gentoo/. "Bug 121332 ppp patch missing from distfiles" "Bug 100260 The File foo2zjs-20050319.tar.gz missed on Gentoo-Mirrors" Those get uploaded and look fine but after 6 months they are suddenly being removed by the script. Initially of course I needed a solution of that bug badly and because the mirrors kept dropping it I have just uploaded it to dev.gentoo.org in lack of any other proper place to put it. But using dev.gentoo.org is deprecated by our infra because the server may not be able to cope with the traffic. Fortunately later I was able to get an account on Patrick Lauers development server http://gentooexperimental.org/~genstef/dist to upload my distfiles there. So this is my current practice and I am eagerly waiting for infra to allow me to use an "official" service instead of my bandaid. Unfortunately some people are really afraid of what I am doing and want to harass me into using the mirror://gentoo that I do not want to use. This mail is dedicated to explain the issue to those people. Please, dont argue such discussions that only give you personal satisfaction of being correct or an excuse to annoy other people. Useless yelling at each other because of a minority where opinions differ is misplaced in a project that is driven by volunteers. That is also why I have stopped and written this mail. But I can see that you are a bit frustrated because you did not get your way through. So here is a guide of what you can do. I will gladly stop using workarounds when I am allowed to have an equally bugfree and fast workflow as currently. What you can do: 1) write a patch for portage to allow granular mirror restrictions for the SRC_URI and work with infra on improving the mirroring script to not ignore mirror://gentoo in mirror-restricted ebuilds. Also for this solution the time for a distfile in /space/distfiles-local to hit the first mirror should be equal to the time for ebuilds to get into the rsync rotation so that problems for users who are too early. 2) get infra to provide patches.gentoo.org as a permanent solution that I have asked for since march 2005 and it sometimes even looked close to getting it on bug 85098. Thanks for understanding Stefan Schweizer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
