From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.loginet.ro (mx.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j464bA4I014429 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 04:37:10 GMT Received: (qmail 14072 invoked by uid 204); 6 May 2005 07:37:11 +0300 Received: from mrness@gentoo.org by hera by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:. Processed in 0.091299 secs); 06 May 2005 04:37:11 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mrness@gentoo.org via hera X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 0.091299 secs) Received: from tg-neamt1.ineton.ro (HELO ?217.156.27.36?) (217.156.27.36) by mx.ineton.ro with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 6 May 2005 07:37:11 +0300 Message-ID: <427AF473.8020709@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:37:07 +0300 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050504) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/ References: <20050505210420.GA20866@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <200505051430.18082.cshields@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200505051430.18082.cshields@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBF94C376D9B2BBE45B15E53B" X-Archives-Salt: 608332f7-d84a-492c-96eb-cbae2efaf5ec X-Archives-Hash: 527615d5f4e8715e5973ef34d993df12 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBF94C376D9B2BBE45B15E53B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corey Shields wrote: >At one point in time someone suggested that we may as well utilize other >people's mirror networks that are already out there, rather than our own. >This then got implemented for stuff like sourceforge packages. > >Unfortunately this plays hell for lots of people. If you have a local mirror, >then you get files fast and without using your outside bandwidth. Having to >wait for a file from some mirror in zimbabwe because "that package already >has a mirror structure" defeats the purpose of running a local mirror. > > 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. :( --------------enigBF94C376D9B2BBE45B15E53B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCevR3RZBYwhawvi4RArywAKCRKeHvc8UgmtjVyLDL2BSWDx5JtACgjBP+ ajzEqys/M322Uyg1d5mISec= =RDqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBF94C376D9B2BBE45B15E53B-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list