From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4666DIK012082 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 06:06:13 GMT Received: from adsl-67-39-48-193.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net ([67.39.48.193] helo=exodus) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DTvya-00077O-DM for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 06:06:16 +0000 Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 01:06:28 -0500 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ Message-ID: <20050506060628.GL13705@exodus.wit.org> References: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <200505051430.18082.cshields@gentoo.org> <427AF473.8020709@gentoo.org> <20050506055303.GA16645@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050506055303.GA16645@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 8c3887c3-66a6-409d-a6ea-2d94509f7dd3 X-Archives-Hash: 3b31448f74318f78536b8dd9cb5bbb2b 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list