From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:04:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9D738A58-9395-405F-9B4A-0FF7FFA686D0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h0knn0$rd1$1@ger.gmane.org>
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.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 4:16 [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-09 7:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-09 13:04 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-06-09 13:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-09 13:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-09 13:48 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-09 14:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-09 23:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-10 7:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-10 7:19 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-10 7:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-09 15:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Arttu V.
2009-06-09 16:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-09 18:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-09 18:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-09 21:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-09 22:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-09 22:17 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-09 22:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-09 22:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-09 23:27 ` Neil Bothwick
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