Bug 916555

Summary:	profiles/thirdpartymirrors: dead qmail mirrors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Orlitzky <mjo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PullRequest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/35052
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2023-10-30 23:28:05 UTC

I ran a quick check on our thirdpartymirrors file, and a few qmail mirrors came up dead:

 * http://qmail.cti.gr/
 * http://qmail.cavsystems.net/

At the very least, those two should be removed from the list.

In this case, though, I think there is a better option: there is an "official" download location for everything in the tree that is using mirror://qmail:

 * http://qmail.org/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz
 * http://qmail.org/big-todo.103.patch
 * http://qmail.org/queue-fix-todo.patch
 * http://qmail.org/ucspi-rss.diff

Since we already mirror everything onto Gentoo infra, there's no real benefit to using the mirror:// construct over simply listing the qmail.org sources in SRC_URI. This is what the devmanual recommends at https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html#third-party-mirrors

If all of those mirror://qmail sources were switched to qmail.org, we could get rid of the entry in thirdpartymirrors and next time I won't have to check to see if any of them are dead :)

Comment 1 Rolf Eike Beer archtester

2023-10-31 11:31:42 UTC

yes please

Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2024-02-17 23:27:27 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d89ed85b082d18621eec92daa1c029e689e3ec6a

commit d89ed85b082d18621eec92daa1c029e689e3ec6a
Author:     Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
AuthorDate: 2024-01-28 11:19:33 +0000
Commit:     Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-17 23:26:07 +0000

    profiles/thirdpartymirrors: drop mirror://qmail/
    
    This mirror list has been inlined into the packages that were using it.
    
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/35052
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/916555
    Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
    Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>

 profiles/thirdpartymirrors | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5c638a4a046e99121b72f292673444bc7fdbae0e

commit 5c638a4a046e99121b72f292673444bc7fdbae0e
Author:     Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
AuthorDate: 2024-01-28 11:02:51 +0000
Commit:     Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-17 23:18:13 +0000

    profiles/thirdpartymirrors: drop dead qmail mirrors
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/916555
    Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
    Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>

 profiles/thirdpartymirrors | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)