From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51225138247 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 02:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BCF2E0B7C; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 02:14:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 214A7E0B3E for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 02:14:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marga.jer-c2.orkz.net (D4B2706A.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [212.178.112.106]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jer) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C77533F532 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 02:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 03:14:23 +0100 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage Message-ID: <20140109031423.602bc73a@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <52CD9AD9.70004@yahoo.ca> References: <52CB1B6D.5090800@yahoo.ca> <20140108161102.6c8e47d2@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <52CD9AD9.70004@yahoo.ca> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 465dac48-4967-445b-a9a1-8ed38ccb232a X-Archives-Hash: da706937251caa017a4f0bd5bed68338 On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:37:13 -0500 Alex Xu wrote: > Eww. Geographically-close files should be made available through > GENTOO_MIRRORS and the regular distfiles system. How do you define GENTOO_MIRRORS? Where did RESTRICT=mirror go? Oh right. What if those are not available? What I am proposing is /more/ flexibility, but you think when GENTOO_MIRRORS fails, I should still collect files from just any site half a world away? How does that help? Please contribute. jer