Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

[Brian Jackson]

You know about the local mirror type in /etc/portage/mirrors right?
Well, that file could probably be used by you in many ways. Check it out.

--Iggy

Carlos Silva wrote:

>Hi guys,
>since the change of the eclass kernel-2 to make it use the subversion
>kernel patches that we no longer keep the kernel sources on our mirrors
>and they are downloaded from the kernel.org mirrors. What happends is
>that alot of people, including me, have traffic limits imposed by the
>IPS's. In my case, i have 4GB international traffic limit. In the most
>cases, the PT kernel.org mirror isn't "selected" as the mirror to
>download the kernel when we try to download a new kernel version so i
>end up making international traffic, thing that didn't happend when we
>had the sources on the mirrors. Besides that, in the case the of PT
>kernel.org mirror, it is very slow compared to some good distfiles
>mirrors we have here. 
>So what i want to know is what you guys think if we get the kernel
>sources back in the mirrors.
>  
>

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[gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

[Carlos Silva]

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Hi guys,
since the change of the eclass kernel-2 to make it use the subversion
kernel patches that we no longer keep the kernel sources on our mirrors
and they are downloaded from the kernel.org mirrors. What happends is
that alot of people, including me, have traffic limits imposed by the
IPS's. In my case, i have 4GB international traffic limit. In the most
cases, the PT kernel.org mirror isn't "selected" as the mirror to
download the kernel when we try to download a new kernel version so i
end up making international traffic, thing that didn't happend when we
had the sources on the mirrors. Besides that, in the case the of PT
kernel.org mirror, it is very slow compared to some good distfiles
mirrors we have here. 
So what i want to know is what you guys think if we get the kernel
sources back in the mirrors.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

[Lars Weiler]

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* Carlos Silva <r3pek@gentoo.org> [05/04/26 02:57 +0100]:
> Well, i really don't know that one... what does it make, and where can i
> find info about it?

It's in the portage man-page.  Just search for 'mirrors' and
find other interesting stuff in that page as well ;-)

Regards, Lars
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Lars Weiler  <pylon@gentoo.org>  +49-171-1963258
Gentoo Linux PowerPC    : Manager and Release Engineer
Gentoo Infrastructure   : CVS Administrator
Gentoo Public Relations : Assistance for Europe

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

[Carlos Silva]

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On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:35 -0500, Brian Jackson wrote:
> You know about the local mirror type in /etc/portage/mirrors right?
> Well, that file could probably be used by you in many ways. Check it out.
> 
> --Iggy
> 
Well, i really don't know that one... what does it make, and where can i
find info about it?

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