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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 06:06:13
Message-Id: 20050506060628.GL13705@exodus.wit.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:53:03PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:37:07AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote:
3 > > I know only one mirror network who could worth the hassle: cpan.
4 > > Perl has a nice geographically distributed network of mirrors. Too bad
5 > > portage can't automatically select the closest cpan mirror. :(
6 > You can already put in specific mirrors to use via /etc/portage/mirrors
7 >
8 > So just write up some changes to mirrorselect that can populate that
9 > file by selecting the optimum choices from profiles/thirdpartymirrors.
10 For third party mirrors, might I suggest /etc/portage/mirrors?
11
12 Bit saner then jamming a cpan specific mirror into GENTOO_MIRRORS...
13 ~brian
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