Bug 682210

Summary:	www-client/firefox-bin should be bindist restricted
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	mozilla, proxy-maint, tripolar
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	687024

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...