On Fri, 2026-02-13 at 03:25 -0500, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 08:06:54AM +0000, m1027 wrote: > > > We would like to announce that Gentoo now has a presence on Codeberg > > > > Congrats! > > > > Is this also meant for the user's daily portage update (emerge --sync)? > > At the moment, nothing. Currently codeberg does not host the "sync > friendly mirror" that includes news and metadata that I can see. > Unless you're sync'ing using the dev repo which I wouldn't recommend. > > To clarify by comparing with github, these are different things: > https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo (sync mirror) > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo (dev repo) > > Imagine codeberg will have it in the future given we already have > a "gentoo-mirror" placeholder there, but either way may as well use > Microsoft's resources/bandwidth with github rather than anongit or > codeberg when it is just for cloning :). Ultimately is the same after > verifying signatures.
So far I don't think we really deliberated on that. The key point here is that unlike GitHub, Codeberg is running on community funding, and we don't want to abuse their resources with the huge syncing repo. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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