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>>>>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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>> I understand the concern, but instead of banning the use of |
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>> mirror://gentoo, why not make it mandatory to have a dev.gentoo.org |
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>> link |
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>> in SRC_URI when there's a mirror://gentoo link? |
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> Because they are functionally equivalent. |
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They are not, in fact. |
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> If you do have a SRC_URI pointing to dev.g.o, then portage _will_ |
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> look for the file in the gentoo mirrors by default unless you |
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> explicitly RESTRICT it. |
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And if you have an SRC_URI pointing to mirror://gentoo/ then Portage |
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will look for the file on Gentoo mirrors, regardless of any fetch or |
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mirror restriction. This can be useful, e.g., if you need the mirror |
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restriction only for one file in SRC_URI. |
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Ulrich |
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