From: Ben Kohler <bkohler@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:14:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANSUr=+M1rTmuM+GAcFs7w1=kWtjLEdPLeucC5A-srs305WU4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52CD9AD9.70004@yahoo.ca>
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> Eww. Geographically-close files should be made available through
> GENTOO_MIRRORS and the regular distfiles system.
>
I think you may be missing the point of this proposal, or are unaware of
how profiles/thirdpartymirrors and SRC_URI="mirror://.." work.
Readability and maintanence issues aside (which themselves are huge), the
current setup with a list of literally hundreds of geographically-random
mirrors for one source, is quite often doing a disservice to our users.
Most of the very large upstream mirror list sources are already sorted
geographically, it would be great to take advantage of this.
And to me, it seems like the proposed thirdpartymirrors/mirrorname/<Region>
setup seems quite elegant. I'm sure it would be optional and mirror lists
that can't take advantage of this would just use a flat file at
thirdpartymirrors/mirrorname.
-Ben
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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
2014-01-09 15:14 ` Ben Kohler [this message]
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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