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 7AFAC138247 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 02:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A3E8E0AA9; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 02:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27AC7E0A76 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 02:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hn9so6354540wib.0 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:23:45 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Jq1mBpMQhM1Kb5k6xjHbmynOuOR7A532nPf3UGtcOw4=; b=EHdKEtvGtUeCgcwitZpPtr4os80cDN/dlPOKb/aCaIHTdCk3Re0NH+ju4z9IG9A00g 2dngS18Ea2rYDyRM7+jHFA2SILKPBQx2YEbOnncIsI19CIES+YwhYvn6LDWMF05qKen9 rSrDl+mBwrt+3fSVgZE/q/1gMWkIQERNzDaQDhpw8wZ4otg70bCUiFpIzBkHUknsGvbH 8S1s+O6B0YuaZg3e+z7oWPqtB9LotkiDdd9Kldhju3ew/DmtvmfE57UJO4+GWgPh6z3J /IxyX/CNLV/lfLaOMIshRWQRKXDrsmu01HldVZMw/OIn18NWdDD3n6Zu2+teN6TgpOWe a2dQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnos/2RCiTtYhV7ebMvbxirEfT/ejj1ZLJt747mMqZiDs/Rtiplvy3abwbSL3JkMweLOTw8 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 X-Received: by 10.180.97.164 with SMTP id eb4mr24315726wib.11.1389234225714; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:23:45 -0800 (PST) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.216.170.129 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 18:23:45 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [173.8.165.226] In-Reply-To: <20140109031423.602bc73a@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> References: <52CB1B6D.5090800@yahoo.ca> <20140108161102.6c8e47d2@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <52CD9AD9.70004@yahoo.ca> <20140109031423.602bc73a@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 18:23:45 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: P9ZaZAu6vIneAbh2GfYbMhJ13WU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage From: Alec Warner To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0444032089b34e04ef804c6c X-Archives-Salt: 6b6cf36e-7706-4994-b6bc-3811dce54989 X-Archives-Hash: f900af0dd89fcb11febb5d75abc7c373 --f46d0444032089b34e04ef804c6c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > 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. > 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 > --f46d0444032089b34e04ef804c6c Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable



On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jeroen Roovers &l= t;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=3Dmirror go? Oh<= br> 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 dea= l with prioritizing nor ordering them....so how would that work? Labelling = each mirror I presume?

-A
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