On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <[email protected]> wrote: > Il giorno sab, 29/10/2011 alle 11.39 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal ha scritto: >> app-text/unpaper/unpaper-0.3.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz" > > Removed unpaper-0.3 (I mirror a copy of the sources on my website, but I > expect 0.4 to make muuuch more sense, since I've taken it over). > >> app-portage/conf-update/conf-update-1.0.1.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2" >> app-portage/eix/eix-0.22.11.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz" >> app-portage/eix/eix-0.22.5.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz" >> app-portage/eix/eix-0.23.1.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz" >> app-portage/eix/eix-0.23.2.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz" >> app-portage/etc-proposals/etc-proposals-1.4.3-r2.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz" > > And this is what makes me concerned about using external resources for > Gentoo-specific software... I suppose we should mirror these somewhere > on Gentoo infra, given that we're probably the only ones interested in > it. Volunteers?
We can't force people who write Gentoo specific software to host w/us (that would be silly.) If upstream is dead then take a tarball and clone it into a git repo; nothing is stopping you. > > For future reference: I'm striving to keep a local copy of any source > file that Portage referenced and that I could fetch (that means even > stuff that is mirror-restricted since I only fetch it and store it > locally, not redistribute it), at least for the time my tinderbox has > been running... so if you happen to stumble across this after Berlios > shut down and you need some source file that was there, feel free to get > in touch with me. Expect some latency though. > > -- > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ >
