Mike Frysinger wrote: [snip]
>>RESTRICT=[no]mirror >>------------------- >>- Files too large for the mirrors? (What is the size limit?) > > > yes ... We should probably have a hard definition for this or expectations to the rule too. Let me look through our current distfiles and see how big we really get on a few things. I'd say anything more than a few hundred megs is a bit too much, but thats just my rough guess. [snip] >>Unless there is something I've missed, why do we have ebuilds with >>RESTRICT=nomirror, having a GPL-2 license, and distributed via >>sourceforge? Wouldn't RESTRICT=primaryuri be much better? Most fetches >>would go to SF first, and we'd still have a copy available on our >>mirrors. > > > because a while back someone got the big idea that if someone provides a > mirroring system (like sourceforge), we should let users abuse those mirrors > instead of gentoo mirrors ... subsequently, people started sticking RESTRICT > into the ebuilds ... > > we have since decided that was a dumb idea (which i agree with) but no one > cared to go through portage and revert the RESTRICT ... i just do it when i > happen to notice it updating old ebuilds We could make a couple of bugs for each category and get those folks to fixing them. But then that would require a lot of work and I know we're all just a bunch of lazy bums anyways ;) -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operational Manager --- Public GPG key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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