>>>>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> Currently RESTRICT=mirror and RESTRICT=bindist are independent of >> each other. I wonder if the former should imply the latter. >> >> Is there any package where the files in SRC_URI cannot be mirrored >> (i.e., redistributed), but where the built package can be >> distributed?
> i've used RESTRICT=mirror in the past when the files were really > large (like games or toolchain source tarballs) and upstream already > had a good mirroring system. in both cases, there was no binary > redistribution restrictions. > so my answer would be no: we have two independent knobs and let's > keep them that way. Right. And as was pointed to me on IRC, another legitimate case for mirror restriction are packages in overlays whose distfiles are not on mirrors. Then it obviously makes no sense to check mirrors for it. Ulrich
