Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-14 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
On 2020-11-14 23:12, James Le Cuirot wrote: I'm not claiming this has never actually happened but I use these GitHub tarballs*a lot* and I don't recall ever seeing it. Does anyone know for sure that it's happened in, say, the last 3 years? It's a lot of extra work for a problem that may no long

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 11:03:29 +1300 Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:38:35 -0500 > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > I just host stuff like that on my dev webspace, or better yet on > > github or something else that will auto-tarball stuff. > > Oh, yeah, and don't rely on github auto-tarb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:38:35 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > I just host stuff like that on my dev webspace, or better yet on > github or something else that will auto-tarball stuff. Oh, yeah, and don't rely on github auto-tarball stuff. History has demonstrated github sometimes "forgets" their cac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:38:35 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > I thought that the whole mirror:// thing was discouraged. For > anything else you just stick SRC_URI in the ebuild and the mirrors > should fetch it when they see it in the repo. > > I just host stuff like that on my dev webspace, or bett