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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:51:35
Message-Id: 4F96D982.9000200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors by "Michał Górny"
1 On 04/24/2012 09:38 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:11 +0000
3 > "Robin H. Johnson"<robbat2@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
6 >>>>> $ ./mirrors.py --all --count
7 >>>>> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net
8 >>>>> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net/get
9 >>>>> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net
10 >>>>> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net/get
11 >>>> These are already mirror bouncers. If you visit the above, you'll
12 >>>> get the closest mirror for downloading.
13 >>> And since there is already ~10 "mirrors" with only one actual
14 >>> backend, should they go to thirdpartymirrors or not ? If not, what
15 >>> about this pseudo-mirrors already present in thirdpartymirrors ?
16 >> I think we should add the pseudo-mirrors, but explicitly mark them as
17 >> such in the file, so that they don't get duplicate entries added (eg
18 >> adding us.pear, de.pear and the pear bouncer is bad. Should have just
19 >> the bouncer).
20 >
21 > It'd be great if we could add some kind of additional mirror entries,
22 > which would be used by repoman to signal missing mirror:// entries but
23 > won't be used for downloads.
24
25 We could just add them in thirpartymirrors under fake names that nobody
26 will use.
27 --
28 Thanks,
29 Zac