Hello, everyone.

TL;DR: should we expose "syncing" mirrors directly in our base repositories.xml?


Per my previously announcement, I'd like to wind down the "public"
service of mirroring all Gentoo repositories, and limit it to the few repositories we have control over -- at least ::gentoo and ::guru. This
makes me want to reconsider how we're publishing these mirrors right
now.

Just to clarify, we are talking about these mirrors:

https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git

and:

https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/guru
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/sync/guru.git

Currently, our primary repositories.xml file [1] lists only rsync
and the "standard" git repository. The "mirror" repositories are
overimposed on them in a separate repository [2]. eselect-repo defaults
to using the latter.

What I'm wondering about is whether we should add the aforementioned
mirror repositories into the former repositories.xml, and sunset
the latter. I think it would improve the consistency, given that
the "mirror" repository has the same contents as rsync (unlike
the "standard" repository) -- but I'm not sure if this won't break
somebody's workflow.

WDYT?


[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/tree/files/overlays/repositories.xml [2] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/repos/repositories.xml

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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Add the "sync" sources for ::gentoo and ::guru repositories
that provide the extra combined metadata and md5-cache. While arguably
this is not the same thing, the list already includes rsync source
which is actually closer to the "sync" repositories than the upstream repositories.
---
files/overlays/repositories.xml | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/files/overlays/repositories.xml b/files/overlays/repositories.xml index a338df5..ca1a2ca 100755
--- a/files/overlays/repositories.xml
+++ b/files/overlays/repositories.xml
@@ -1686,6 +1686,13 @@
<email>bug-wranglers@gentoo.org</email>
</owner>
<source type="rsync">rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage</source>
+ <!-- repositories with extra metadata and md5-cache -->
+ <source type="git">https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git</source>
+ <source type="git">git+ssh://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git</source> + <source type="git">https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/sync/gentoo.git</source>
+ <source type="git">git://anongit.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git</source> + <source type="git">git+ssh://git@git.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git</source>
+ <!-- bare repositories -->
<source type="git">https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/gentoo.git</so