On Friday 26 April 2013 15:23:42 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> 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.
ah, yeah, we do this a lot in ChromiumOS -mike
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