Hi all, I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-local on dev.g.o. Please don't do this.
If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these. This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before. Yes, we all know that the history with the Infra team has been against this idea, but until there is a proper replacement for this handling, the Gentoo sources archive, we really shouldn't be putting the data in non-permanent locations, the team should, nowadays, be on the same page as me on this. Pushing files that are still available somewhere else, but cannot be directly fetched for whatever reason is still to be bone through /space/distfiles-local. *PLEASE NOTE:* This is to be considered QA policy, so we're going to ask soon to enforce this. This requirement, though, _will_ be superseded as soon as Infra provides us with a proper archive for this kind of files. Thank you, -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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