Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors

[Don Seiler]

My thoughts exactly.  Also IIRC portage will go through the list of
sf.net mirrors in the same pre-determined order every time.  Perhaps to
do some quasi-load-balancing we can have it randomly go through the
mirrors and/or allow the user to specify their preferred mirror in an
/etc/make.conf var like:

SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR=twtelecom

Perhaps this won't work but I thought I'd throw it out.

Don.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:24:09PM +0200, Rainer Groesslinger wrote:
> Perhaps you already thought about this but IMHO part of that policy should be
> that files which are stored on a network with a good mirroring infrastructure
> (sourceforge, kernel.org etc.) are never placed on our distfiles because it
> is very unlikely all 10 mirrors (or how many sourceforge ever has) are down
> and since the gentoo distfile mirrors are used before the
> mirror://sourceforge in the ebuild it causes more traffic to the mirrors
> (plus the space it takes) because nobody really gets it from sourceforge...
>
> I think we could save a lot of bandwidth _and_ space if such files aren't
> placed on the gentoo mirrors if not absolutly neccessary, I don't see a real
> reason why we need to put hundreds of files on the gentoo mirrors which are
> already stored on a very good mirroring system.

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