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Bug 249017

Summary: sys-devel/gcc-config: big file in $FILESDIR
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-26 21:34:23 UTC
(20K) sys-devel/gcc-config/files/gcc-config-1.4.0
   (20K) sys-devel/gcc-config/files/gcc-config-1.4.1


I'm reporting this bug since repoman issued a warning about a file bigger than 20KiB.

Big files should be moved to mirrors, or otherwise stored outside the main cvs tree, since the cvs/rsync tree is downloaded by all users, whether they'll use your package or not.

Thank you,
Diego
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2008-11-27 21:28:29 UTC
no plans to address this
Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-28 03:56:31 UTC
Why not?  We really should mirror these instead of sticking them into the tree...
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2008-11-28 04:50:40 UTC
mirrors are not SCMs
Comment 4 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-29 01:00:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> mirrors are not SCMs
> 

No, they aren't, but http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/ looks like a much better place to keep gcc-config so that we can easily track it.
Comment 5 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-01-25 02:05:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> mirrors are not SCMs
> 

And neither are rsync trees ;)

Anyway, it is pretty trivial to plop the file into /space/distfiles-local, add mirror://gentoo/$(file) to SRC_URI, and then do stuff with it relative to WORKDIR instead of FILESDIR.

Just my 2 cents.
Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-03-23 04:47:07 UTC
gcc-config-1.6 has moved to git