From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EA6JM-00039f-Cy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:38:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UDZFIV004277; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:35:15 GMT Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it (85-18-21-122.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.21.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UDXYuS016992 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:33:34 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B1F7AD6F8 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:35:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (db [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25892-02 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:35:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.4.153] (host-4-153.pnpitalia.it [192.168.4.153]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id A430B7AD6F6 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:35:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <43145FAA.9040904@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:31:22 +0200 From: Francesco R User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) 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] proposed shift of files in the tree of non profiles files into seperate dir References: <20050827084225.GW1701@nightcrawler> <20050830060323.GJ13987@nightcrawler> <1125407297.1964.201.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1125407297.1964.201.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at db X-Archives-Salt: 1c4a77c8-b1be-49e6-b2f0-d1675a3988d2 X-Archives-Hash: 0cf005ebd25d81333c0b5699d0dcdb0a Chris Gianelloni wrote: >On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:03 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > > >>On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:42:25AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: >> >> >>>Hola all. >>> >>>Straight to the point, I'm proposing that the following files- >>>arch.list >>>categories >>>use.desc >>>use.local.desc >>>package.mask >>>updates >>> >>> >>Addition to this list: thirdpartymirrors . >> >> > >Question about thirdpartymirrors (this is for everyone, not just >Brian)... > >What is the preferred method for listing mirrors, just listing the site >name, or listing the site name plus path to the particular item? > > example from mysql mirrors: ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/mysql http://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/mysql http://mysql.orst.edu The mirror item should be the minimum common denominator between the mirrors. In this specific case because the mirror is usable also for other products of mysql. >The reason that I ask is the 3dgamers mirror rotation could have the >paths added to it, which would actually shorten a lot of SRC_URI's in >quite a few games ebuilds. > > > there are always excepitions ;-) You are speaking of paths that will *never* change right ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list