On 29-10-2019 05:27:37 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > 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.
/space/distfiles-local is no longer copied to the mirrors? or just not copied in the subdir-hierarchy? > > 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 It's no longer valid. Just wondering. Do you mean it isn't valid that some upstreams do this (yes horror)? We surely need a way to work around that ... Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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