Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling downloads from sourceforge in an ebuild

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 06:06 pm, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
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> On Tuesday 25 May 2004 23:38, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > Just use RESTRICT=nomirror when the file is massive (many hundreds of
> > megabytes) or we're legally prohibited from redistributing it.
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> Why only then? It really sucks from user perspective going through the
> list of Gentoo mirrors, finding nothing, when you could fetch directly from
> a sourceforge mirror.

what are you talking about ?
portage would only test what the user has in GENTOO_MIRRORS before hitting the 
stuff listed in SRC_URI ... and it doesnt really suck from user perspective 
since they arent actually running wget themselves :P
-mike

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