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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 them |
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to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better quality |
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bits than my ftp server... |
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By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international bandwidth |
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instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months, when Fedora or |
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Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire pipe into this |
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*country* - just to get isos that I already have publicly available and am |
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begging them to use. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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