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Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to phase out GitHub repos (www.gentoo.org)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Gentoo now has a presence on Codeberg, and contributions can be submitted for the Gentoo repository mirror at https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo as an alternative to GitHub. Eventually also other git repositories will become available under the Codeberg Gentoo organization. This is part of the gradual mirror migration away from GitHub, as already mentioned in the 2025 end-of-year review. Codeberg is a site based on Forgejo, maintained by a dedicated non-profit organization, and located in Berlin, Germany. Thanks to everyone who has helped make this move possible!

These mirrors are for convenience for contribution and we continue to host our own repositories, just like we did while using GitHub mirrors for ease of contribution too.

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[–] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I only use Gentoo during the cold periods to keep my feet warm. /s

To be serious: I hope Codeberg is able to keep up with the increased traffic and computing power required with the influx of the new projects.

If NixOS should decide to switch the nixpkgs repo, this would mean serious business:

  • nixpkgs contains 120k packages
  • Hydra as CI/CD for automated building of packages
  • Storage for 150TB of binaries
  • NW bandwith and maybe redesign into global distribution networks needed

I highly doubt that Codeberg would be a valid alternative platform in terms of storage, CI/CD capabilities or raw computing power.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Each package has an average of 1.1 Gb of binaries? Maybe delete a few of the old versions, then. But I think the most serious ask there is the network infrastructure - lots of big downloads around the world soon add up.

The Arch linux package is about 150 Mb; they've a few larger ones, but most come in at a few megabytes. (Have just checked my Pacoloco shared cache - average of 773 packages is 5.8 Mb. That serves a network server, a gaming desktop, my personal development laptop and my work development laptop, so it's a cross section.)

[–] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 17 hours ago

Each package is precompiled for different architectures (aarch, x84_64) for different targets (linux, darwin) and each NixOS version has a separate binary cache (unstable, 25.11, 24.11)

That alone means there are at least 12 different versions for one package of a specified version in the binary cache. Now add different versions to that and and you are well below 50MB per package.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is big. But also very important. You could say it’s big and important.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago

Are we still talking about Gentoo? Big and important, huh? Bimp-or-tant.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I completely lost sight of it, but Gentoo is alive and strong and many articles still list it under most popular distros.

Codeberg is a good choice - definitely way better than Github.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

Many, many years ago (20-ish?) I spent a full weekend trying to get Gentoo working on an even older PC. I wasn't completely new to Linux (having installed and used a bit of Mandrake and Fedora Core), but I was certainly no expert.

I spent the entire weekend trying and failing to get a usable system, reinstalling numerous times with different options, installing countless packages, and following innumerable guides on troubleshooting. I never had a system even close to as usable as Fedora was out of the box.

Still, I consider that weekend a complete success. I learned more about Linux in that one weekend than at any point since. Everything after that has been little tidbits needed for the task at hand, without much of the base foundational understanding. Failing with Gentoo taught me so much.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Gentoo USE flags are addictive.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

👏🎉