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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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Understandable, but my problem lies in "ebuild digest" of my own ebuilds |
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and ebuilds of third-party overlays. Along the URLs tried by portage is |
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one that seems to need over a minute to reply with "401 not found". |
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This is highly annoying. I would want to try SRC_URI in those cases first. |
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Of course that doesn't mean SRC_URI should be tried by default first. I |
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never suggested that and look what happened to this thread :P |
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