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On 08/01/14 10:11 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:12:59 +0000 |
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> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I was also asked by a user to make it possible to adjust the priority |
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>> of some mirror URLs, instead of only random choice. |
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> While we are at it, we could add keywords for (global) regions, so |
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> that I can set portage to look for a European mirror and portage will |
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> avoid contacting a distant mirror in Asia or America. |
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> It's probably worth it in the long run to do a little more here than |
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> have users simply express priorities for specific mirrors. |
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> We could probably set up the path structure like this: |
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> profiles/thirdpartymirrors/gnu/Europe |
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> and add a blacklist/whitelist/priority structure |
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> in /etc/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors, maybe? |
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> Portage might even use the local system's timezone to determine what |
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> mirror set to use. |
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Eww. Geographically-close files should be made available through |
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GENTOO_MIRRORS and the regular distfiles system. |
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