On Saturday 21 March 2009 21:41:39 Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
>
> <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:39:43 +0200
> >
> > Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> I took a look on EAPI2 specifications but couldn't find how mirrors
> >> behave with arrows.
> >
> > It's supposed to say this:
> >> In EAPIs supporting arrows, if an arrow is used, the filename used
> >> when saving to \t{DISTDIR} shall instead be the name on the right of
> >> the arrow. When consulting mirrors (except for those explicitly
> >> listed on the left of the arrow, if \t{mirror://} is used), the
> >> filename to the right of the arrow shall be requested instead of the
> >> filename in the URI.
> >
> > But it didn't, thanks to a formatting screwup. I've fixed that now.
>
> I think Markos is talking about the actual mirror-fetch script itself.
> The gentoo mirrors still use a flat namespace so someone will need to
> update mirror-fetch to rename files based on src_uri arrows. And by
> 'someone' I mean Zac.
>
> -A
>
> > --
> > Ciaran McCreesh
Actually I didn't understand completely what Ciaran said. I am still
not
quite sure how mirrors treat the SRC_URI with arrows. Will they fetch the file
from upstream as save it with the filename I specified on arrow or they will
save it respecting the upstream filename? :)
--
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.gr
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