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

[Ben Kohler <bkohler@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> This is a small feature request, but it will require a modification to
> PMS, so I describe it here.
>
> The present thirdpartymirrors file is unwieldy, and difficult to manage
> due to it's format with very long lines. It also doesn't permit easy
> comments. Presently commits to it look very ugly, because diffs are
> line-based, and we pack a lot into each line.
>
> I would like to make it a directory instead of a single file, and extend
> the internal syntax.
>
> I am very excited about this whole idea, this thirdpartymirrors setup
badly needs some reworking.   To me it makes the most sense to turn
thirdpartymirrors into a dir, with a file structure like:

thirdpartymirrors/mirror1
thirdpartymirrors/mirror2
thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/
thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/Asia
thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/Europe
thirdpartymirrors/mirror3/Etc
thirdpartymirrors/mirror4

I'm not sure I see much real value in allowing individual profiles to
add/remove mirrors from each group, to be honest.  Maybe I'm just not
thinking of the right scenarios.

But I really do believe just the basic changes like splitting the file so
each group gets its own file, one server per line, with comments, etc...
will be a huge help in using and maintaining these groups.

-Ben

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