Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:12:59 +0000
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:

> I was also asked by a user to make it possible to adjust the priority
> of some mirror URLs, instead of only random choice.

While we are at it, we could add keywords for (global) regions, so
that I can set portage to look for a European mirror and portage will
avoid contacting a distant mirror in Asia or America.

It's probably worth it in the long run to do a little more here than
have users simply express priorities for specific mirrors.

We could probably set up the path structure like this:

profiles/thirdpartymirrors/gnu/Europe

and add a blacklist/whitelist/priority structure
in /etc/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors, maybe?

Portage might even use the local system's timezone to determine what
mirror set to use.


     jer