Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:11 +0000
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
> > >> $ ./mirrors.py --all --count
> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net
> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net/get
> > >> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net
> > >> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net/get
> > > These are already mirror bouncers. If you visit the above, you'll
> > > get the closest mirror for downloading.
> > And since there is already ~10 "mirrors" with only one actual
> > backend, should they go to thirdpartymirrors or not ? If not, what
> > about this pseudo-mirrors already present in thirdpartymirrors ?
> I think we should add the pseudo-mirrors, but explicitly mark them as
> such in the file, so that they don't get duplicate entries added (eg
> adding us.pear, de.pear and the pear bouncer is bad. Should have just
> the bouncer).

It'd be great if we could add some kind of additional mirror entries,
which would be used by repoman to signal missing mirror:// entries but
won't be used for downloads.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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