On 3 January 2014 02:18, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Maybe we could add RESTRICT=srcdist which would cause ebuilds to > > save their distfiles in a separate directory controlled by > > PORTDIR_NODIST or something. If the variable is unset then it's > > business as usual. > > Interesting idea, but how would RESTRICT=srcdist be different from > RESTRICT=mirror? >
I'd suggest we don't even need multiple variables for this, RESTRICT=mirror seems clear enough. The only change required would be overloading the meaning of that RESTRICT verb to mean new things with regard to disk storage. ie: /distfiles/ # Normal /distfiles-nomirror/ # RESTRICT=mirror /distfiles-nofetch/ # RESTRICT=fetch I guess you could make it still search for distfiles in all 3 locations in case end users want to do silly things like violate Java's mirroring policies and replicate java things via distfiles/ shared, or you could make it straightfoward enough to use all 3 paths with a single distfiles dir. But as it stands, the tooling isn't too friendly for people who want/need to closely adhere to upstream distribution policies. -- Kent
