From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 01:06:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050506060628.GL13705@exodus.wit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050506055303.GA16645@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:53:03PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> 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.
For third party mirrors, might I suggest /etc/portage/mirrors?
Bit saner then jamming a cpan specific mirror into GENTOO_MIRRORS...
~brian
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-05 21:04 [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ Robin H. Johnson
2005-05-05 21:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-05-05 21:30 ` Corey Shields
2005-05-06 4:37 ` Alin Nastac
2005-05-06 5:53 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-05-06 6:06 ` Brian Harring [this message]
2005-05-06 21:08 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-07 16:42 ` Lance Albertson
2005-05-05 22:01 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-05 22:06 ` Lance Albertson
2005-05-05 22:21 ` Corey Shields
2005-05-05 22:22 ` Lance Albertson
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