On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 12:17 +0000, Samuel Bernardo wrote:
> Hi again Michał,
> On 3/27/20 11:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Nope, just ::gentoo.  Minus ebuilds with RESTRICT=mirror.
> 
> I have some doubts after reading the mirror documentation[1] in the
> context of personal overlays (not official).
> 
> There is two procedures defined as I could understand:
> - manually upload a file to mirror://gentoo, scp it to
> dev.gentoo.org:/space/distfiles-local
> 
> - having SRC_URI defined as
> SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~myname/distfiles/${P}.tar.gz"; to avoid
> namespace collisions with RESTRIC=mirror in ebuild would be uploaded
> automatically
> 
> The use of mirror://gentoo directly is a deprecated policy. So it must
> be used https instead.
> 
> 1) Did I understand it right?

Yes, I think so.

> 
> 2) What is dev.gentoo.org:~/public_html? Do this means that is only
> available to Gentoo official developers the access to the mirror[2]?

It's just a web server.  Technically, you can use any server, either
private or public, as long as it provides reliable download.

Yes, only developers and proxied maintainers whose packages are
in ::gentoo.  In the latter case, we either upload their files for them
or they use some other hosting.

> 
> Best,
> 
> Samuel
> 
> [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html
> 
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Webspace
> 
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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