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

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

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

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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-11 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/11/2020 19:38, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 7:23 PM Joshua Kinard wrote: >> >> Forgive me for being a dunce, but what is the current procedure to push >> files to distfiles for distribution to the mirrors? The devmanual is blank >> on this topic, and GLEP75 just talks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-11 Thread Georgy Yakovlev
On 11.11.2020 19:23, Joshua Kinard wrote: > Forgive me for being a dunce, but what is the current procedure to push > files to distfiles for distribution to the mirrors? The devmanual is blank > on this topic, and GLEP75 just talks about the motivations behind the change > away from the flat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 7:23 PM Joshua Kinard wrote: > > Forgive me for being a dunce, but what is the current procedure to push > files to distfiles for distribution to the mirrors? The devmanual is blank > on this topic, and GLEP75 just talks about the motivations behind the change > away from

[gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-11 Thread Joshua Kinard
Forgive me for being a dunce, but what is the current procedure to push files to distfiles for distribution to the mirrors? The devmanual is blank on this topic, and GLEP75 just talks about the motivations behind the change away from the flat directory format. I am not easily finding anything