From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ME1Uq-0000vA-QV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:36:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 375E6E04C9; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DE6E04C9 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4686844ewy.34 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:36:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=zqGCcI8HsigMBapLZ5KPcazU93iC+umeFkg+2FuyqJc=; b=JjYgS91SXminHB/oa1CvBJr78/NNgzEfXwITCLZ4dKRY5rbk52kQfX3bo7fI+HlNbx BBaTznb5FCVbvAkyu1fFxFSwB3rcBaiATEo0JspgaAW6OcEg9+6+EJ9y5XEvDHb9ZhLM t2yqbSvkx21E2lFSj1JRvjpSB4ozA4Gv3jmV8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=bZA1YdzefaMzyKk6RgUI66LxqZ2hqqiTuIY4dAKxbkadAjoFK/LZn0XR60rQxNaM4f gqCHYFbRAM39XGUSkAse8P2R/Z+lMb+m0Ek/lLa/QHn44xRcOV6D2gSRSBM6HuugNhxG UXvtCP3+bGVmOFg7sGXl8aUFgdbHAChjSW2iM= Received: by 10.210.57.3 with SMTP id f3mr5774322eba.60.1244554569526; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm116414eyg.47.2009.06.09.06.36.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:36:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:34:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <9D738A58-9395-405F-9B4A-0FF7FFA686D0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9D738A58-9395-405F-9B4A-0FF7FFA686D0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906091534.33767.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3267d588-b3f8-4cc5-bc48-9af293d5f498 X-Archives-Hash: d77c0533406da775166524046cb45b7c On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote: > On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI > > first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from > > GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? > > This is undesirable behaviour - te mirrors exist because SRC_URI may > often have limited bandwidth. > > The package's hosting may be donated to the software's author, for > instance, by a 3rd party, so when you go directly to SRC_URI, avoiding > mirrors, you wear out the author's welcome. > > Mirrors are hosted by people with gallons & gallons of bandwidth to > spare, who expect you to use it. > > It makes sense to use the mirrors FIRST. Definitely. I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better quality bits than my ftp server... By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international bandwidth instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months, when Fedora or Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire pipe into this *country* - just to get isos that I already have publicly available and am begging them to use. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com