Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

[Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>]

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On 08/01/14 10:11 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:12:59 +0000
> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> I was also asked by a user to make it possible to adjust the priority
>> of some mirror URLs, instead of only random choice.
> 
> While we are at it, we could add keywords for (global) regions, so
> that I can set portage to look for a European mirror and portage will
> avoid contacting a distant mirror in Asia or America.
> 
> It's probably worth it in the long run to do a little more here than
> have users simply express priorities for specific mirrors.
> 
> We could probably set up the path structure like this:
> 
> profiles/thirdpartymirrors/gnu/Europe
> 
> and add a blacklist/whitelist/priority structure
> in /etc/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors, maybe?
> 
> Portage might even use the local system's timezone to determine what
> mirror set to use.
> 

Eww. Geographically-close files should be made available through
GENTOO_MIRRORS and the regular distfiles system.



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