On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 00:24 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Hi! > > > Today you get chastised for using /space/distfiles-local and not > > following policy changes. The devmanual states that it's deprecated > > since at least 2011, and talks of using d.g.o [1]. > > [1] > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts > > Sorry I'm late to the party, but I would like to enquire about what happens > if a file with existing filename but different b2sum gets uploaded to > /space/distfiles-local now?
The same as before. It gets put in top-level disfiles directory. Hashes are calculated from filenames, so this wouldn't affect it. That is, if it put those files in subdirectories in the first place because it doesn't. > Doing so and updating the Manifest used to be another (not necessarily > preferred) method to address upstream remaking release packages. > It's no longer valid. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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