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On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote: |
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> > On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an |
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> > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI |
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> > > first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from |
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> > > GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? |
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> > This is undesirable behaviour - te mirrors exist because SRC_URI may |
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> > often have limited bandwidth. |
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> > The package's hosting may be donated to the software's author, for |
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> > instance, by a 3rd party, so when you go directly to SRC_URI, avoiding |
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> > mirrors, you wear out the author's welcome. |
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> > Mirrors are hosted by people with gallons & gallons of bandwidth to |
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> > spare, who expect you to use it. |
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> > It makes sense to use the mirrors FIRST. |
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> Definitely. |
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> I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get |
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> them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better |
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> quality bits than my ftp server... |
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> By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international |
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> bandwidth instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months, |
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> when Fedora or Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire |
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> pipe into this *country* - just to get isos that I already have publicly |
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> available and am begging them to use. |
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my university has a nice volume cap for all students. But everything |
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downloaded from its own network - including the ftp servers is 'free' - only |
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outside traffic counts. |
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Luckily, my university hosts a major gentoo mirror. Not rsync, but distfiles. |
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They also have ubuntu, suse, fedora stuff. Windows updates.. and still people |
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don't use it. Annoying. |