From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tirpitz.iat.sfu.ca (tirpitz.iat.sfu.ca [209.87.56.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j465r1RD030367 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 05:53:02 GMT Received: (qmail 16352 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 22:53:02 -0700 Received: from s01060050da688d47.vc.shawcable.net (HELO curie.orbis-terrarum.net) (24.80.100.253) by tirpitz.iat.sfu.ca with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 May 2005 22:53:02 -0700 Received: (qmail 16952 invoked by uid 10000); 5 May 2005 22:53:03 -0700 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:53:03 -0700 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ Message-ID: <20050506055303.GA16645@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <200505051430.18082.cshields@gentoo.org> <427AF473.8020709@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <427AF473.8020709@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: d9057245-3bff-466d-83f8-10ce501b4c43 X-Archives-Hash: 56a3c8c9aef8ac43a013707cdab72545 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:37:07AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > I know only one mirror network who could worth the hassle: cpan. > Perl has a nice geographically distributed network of mirrors. Too bad > portage can't automatically select the closest cpan mirror. :( You can already put in specific mirrors to use via /etc/portage/mirrors So just write up some changes to mirrorselect that can populate that file by selecting the optimum choices from profiles/thirdpartymirrors. --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=3Dpeople.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks iD8DBQFCewY/PpIsIjIzwiwRAvkYAJ4lyq5blZLgKR2IIz862YE9xwJbbgCfQ7eS CYHRaNNHEXKaVAExGRhVtLw= =aBHo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list