From: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 18:23:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAr7Pr8PLPR3Uo_R_JRv_ThJ-JEa3xK3VfS90x+-SMq-_o6_iw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140109031423.602bc73a@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net>
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:37:13 -0500
> Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca> 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.
>
Except the original proposal is fairly simple (+ / - to add remove mirrors)
and doesn't deal with prioritizing nor ordering them....so how would that
work? Labelling each mirror I presume?
-A
>
>
> jer
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-09 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-06 20:20 [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-06 21:09 ` Alex Xu
2014-01-07 21:12 ` Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-08 15:11 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-08 18:37 ` Alex Xu
2014-01-09 2:14 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-09 2:23 ` Alec Warner [this message]
2014-01-09 15:14 ` Ben Kohler
2014-01-09 7:59 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2014-01-09 15:26 ` Ben Kohler
2014-01-10 4:58 ` Michał Górny
2014-01-10 6:05 ` Alec Warner
2014-01-11 18:27 ` Gordon Pettey
2014-01-11 19:16 ` Kent Fredric
2014-01-11 19:19 ` Kent Fredric
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