Ebuilds, SRC_URI and server redirects

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4952

Posting here because my concern is with the SRC_URI in some ebuilds continuing to work if I try something...

I host some orphaned tarballs on audiodef.com. Some of those were adopted in the pro-audio overlay. I want to move my hosted tarballs to gentoostudio.org, but I don't want to re-orphan anything. So if I move the tarballs, can I use a server redirect? If so, what is the best way to do that so that wget follows the redirect and fetches the moved tarball?
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Genone · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:03 am Post subject:

If it is a server redirect at the HTTP level, and the filenames stay the same, it should work. Anything that involves HTML in any way will likely not work.

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4952

If both domains are on the same server, would a fs symbolic link work?
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Genone · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:41 am Post subject:

Well, portage (or more precisely wget/curl) only talks to your http/ftp server, it doesn't know anything about the underlying filesystem. How the server treats your symlink depends on its configuration.