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On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15:35, Don Seiler wrote: |
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> My thoughts exactly. Also IIRC portage will go through the list of |
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> sf.net mirrors in the same pre-determined order every time. Perhaps to |
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> do some quasi-load-balancing we can have it randomly go through the |
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> mirrors and/or allow the user to specify their preferred mirror in an |
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> /etc/make.conf var like: |
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> SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR=twtelecom |
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> Perhaps this won't work but I thought I'd throw it out. |
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> Don. |
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That would be interesting, too. |
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Perhaps a make.conf setting "RANDOM_MIRROR" or something which is "yes" by |
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default and then randomly picks a mirror from the list if a keyword from |
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thirdpartymirrors is used...That's somewhat pseudo-balancing but better than |
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now. |
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Very popular packages where you can expect a "rush" should still be mirrored |
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to gentoo distfiles so that the thirdpartymirrors aren't overloaded by gentoo |
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users just because we don't mirror it. |
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Rainer Groesslinger |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~scandium/ |
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