On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:16:05 +0200 > Corentin Chary <corentin.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:11 +0000 >> > "Robin H. Johnson" <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote: >> >> > >> $ ./mirrors.py --all --count >> >> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net >> >> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net/get >> >> > >> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net >> >> > >> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net/get >> >> > > These are already mirror bouncers. If you visit the above, >> >> > > you'll get the closest mirror for downloading. >> >> > And since there is already ~10 "mirrors" with only one actual >> >> > backend, should they go to thirdpartymirrors or not ? If not, >> >> > what about this pseudo-mirrors already present in >> >> > thirdpartymirrors ? >> >> I think we should add the pseudo-mirrors, but explicitly mark them >> >> as such in the file, so that they don't get duplicate entries >> >> added (eg adding us.pear, de.pear and the pear bouncer is bad. >> >> Should have just the bouncer). >> > >> > It'd be great if we could add some kind of additional mirror >> > entries, which would be used by repoman to signal missing mirror:// >> > entries but won't be used for downloads. >> >> Yep, we could put that in it too: >> github http://github.com/downloads/ >> https://github.com/downloads/ > > Per spec, portage can choose a random mirror of the list. If we put > entries like that, these two will be equally possible as the preferred > cloud. URL -- while they redirect one to another. > > We might decide on some common syntax like preceding all extra entries > with '-' but I don't want to be the one deciding here.
I checked, and current portage code already handle entries starting with a - gracefully thanks to stack_dictlist (removing them from the list of mirrors). -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net
