On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 20:23, Jerry McBride <mcbrid...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Imagine my surprise when the nightly rsync of Gentoo distfiles with ibibilo > resulted in my distfile repository getting totally deleted. After a few > emails wit the admins at ibibilo I finally got the answer that I was looking > for... the truth... > >>> Jerry, >>> >>> We are no longer rsyncing the distfiles due to space constraints on our >>> distributions volume. Gentoo's own instructions for setting up a mirror >>> recommend excluding the distfiles directory: >>> >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml >>> >>> If you need these files, you could try the other mirrors listed on this >>> page: >>> >>> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Matt >>> > > I promptly emailed back an offer of two new 1,000 gig drives if they would put > the gentoo distfiles back up and... no answer.... > > Guess they really don't care. >
Isn't default portage behavior NOT to sync distfiles? Some distfiles are hosted on mirrors not related to gentoo, others have no mirrors at all, leaving a single server to download from, so, I can't think of a reason to sync this specific folder, other than being a mirror yourself (is that the case?). -- Daniel da Veiga
