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Bug 682210 - www-client/firefox-bin should be bindist restricted
Summary: www-client/firefox-bin should be bindist restricted
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED)
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Blocks: 687024
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Reported: 2019-04-01 08:13 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2019-05-30 18:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-04-01 08:13:33 UTC
The ebuilds already have RESTRICT="mirror" but "bindist" should go along with it: If the distfile cannot be redistributed, then the binpkg cannot be distributed either.
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-04-01 11:08:10 UTC
I am currently investigating why firefox-bin has RESTRICT=mirror at all. We will probably get rid of that restriction...
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-05-30 18:34:24 UTC
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0)
> The ebuilds already have RESTRICT="mirror" but "bindist" should go along
> with it: If the distfile cannot be redistributed, then the binpkg cannot be
> distributed either.

This has changed, RESTRICT=mirror is gone. Therefore RESTRICT=bindist is also not needed...

It was added in the past to allow upstream to track download stats. But this is not needed anymore so...