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The default list of sourceforge (and other) mirrors would seem to me to |
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be well suited to being in make.globals where their value and syntax are |
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easily found, and new values can easily be placed in make.conf for those |
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who prefer other mirror sites. and bad mirrors can get yanked. Like for |
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example, every once in a while a gnukorea (or something like that) comes |
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up as an attempted mirror, however an emerge gets stuck there because |
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its asking for a password. If the lists of available mirrors were more |
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easily found and updated, it would be a lot easier to fix things like |
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that. |
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And I wouldn't expect it to be too difficult to add a |
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FEATURE="ignorenomirror". The machines inside my network only try my |
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local mirror, plus one of the gentoo mirrors before trying the |
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non-mirrored source uri anyway, so ignoring the nomirror directive is |
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not going to cause a drastic increase in file not found requests from |
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the mirrors. The server hosting the distfiles here would be left with a |
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normal set of source mirrors, and obeying the nomirror directive like |
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everyone else. |
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I might be the only one trying to do it just like this, but I'm |
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certainly not the only one trying to share out my own distfiles |
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directory on an internal network. I've even considered burning distfiles |
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snapshots on dvd-r to leave in otherwise unused drives. Also, I'd heard |
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a request from catalyst that portage be able to understand directory |
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paths as a mirror source. Thats another fine example of using a local |
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distfile store of some sort that you would much prefer to have it try |
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first, while ignoring a nomirror directive. |
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On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 14:19, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> This does not mean that mirror selection can and should be done better, |
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> however it is hard to come up with a real good algorithm that does not |
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> involve people changing things by themselves (but still allows them to) |
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> Paul |
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