Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-07 Thread Lance Albertson
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 17:08 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:30 -0700, Corey Shields wrote: I think that nomirror should be used as seldom as possible. Licensing issues are legit. We've had one case where mirror admins complained about a file that was too big

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 May 2005 14:04:20 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've tried to dig through our policy documents, to find the policy | regarding RESTRICT=mirror/fetch. I don't find anything in the htdocs | tree from CVS, beyond a few brief mentions in the handbook. Some of it's in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Corey Shields
On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:04 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Unless there is something I've missed, why do we have ebuilds with RESTRICT=nomirror, having a GPL-2 license, and distributed via sourceforge? Wouldn't RESTRICT=primaryuri be much better? Most fetches would go to SF first, and we'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Lance Albertson
Mike Frysinger wrote: [snip] RESTRICT=[no]mirror --- - Files too large for the mirrors? (What is the size limit?) yes ... We should probably have a hard definition for this or expectations to the rule too. Let me look through our current distfiles and see how big we really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Lance Albertson
Corey Shields wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 03:06 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: We could make a couple of bugs for each category and get those folks to fixing them. But then that would require a lot of work and I know we're all just a bunch of lazy bums anyways ;) I smell a new dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:37:07AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: I know only one mirror network who could worth the hassle: cpan. Perl has a nice geographically distributed network of mirrors. Too bad portage can't automatically select the closest cpan mirror. :( You can already put in specific