Stefan Schweizer wrote:
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.
There is a distfiles whitelist[1] for this exact purpose...isn't there?
[1]
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/mirrors/overview-distfile.xml
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