On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I think you will encounter namespace collisions, thats why I CC'd zac > as he maintains mirror-dist ;p >
Why the hell didn't we think of this before!? :o The mirror-dist script *cannot* rename the upstream files for storage, since emerge will be looking for the *original* filename on the gentoo mirror. And if we keep them the same, we'll have collisions on the mirror, which is more probable (and severe) than a collision on a user's local DISTDIR. The easiest solution I can think of is for emerge to give special consideration to the mirrors in GENTOO_MIRRORS, and look for the renamed file there instead of the original ones. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan who is extremely bewildered by this oversight
