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

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:09:01PM -0500, Alex Xu wrote:
> > 1. New location: $PROFILEDIR/thirdpartymirrors/$MIRRORNAME
> > 1.1. The name of the mirror is now the name of the file.
> > 1.2. We can have a file extension of .mirrors if somebody would like
> >      that.
> > 2. New format (for directory-mode):
> > 2.1. Comments permitted, shell-style.
> > 2.2. Blank lines ignored
> > 2.3. One URL per line, optionally prefixed with "-" or "+"
> > 2.4. For stack repos/overlays:
> > 2.4.1. No prefix: replace all prior mirrors from masters with new URLS in this file.
> > 2.4.2. "-" prefix: remove this URL from the list from masters.
> > 2.4.2. "+" prefix: append this URL to the list from masters.
> 
> So if *any* line doesn't have a prefix, then *everything* gets
> overwritten? What about the prior mirrors listed in the file?
> 
> There needs to be some mechanism for specifying this, but I don't think
> this is it.
> 
> Perhaps a header with a special line?
Suggestions on the format then?

Maybe we have two modes:
1. No prefix, always append
2. Prefix required, one of '+', '-', ' '.

I was also asked by a user to make it possible to adjust the priority of
some mirror URLs, instead of only random choice.

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