On 04/26/2012 12:30 AM, Corentin Chary wrote: > 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).
That means repoman will ignore them too. If you want existing versions of repoman to check for those paths in SRC_URI, you can add a line like this to thirdpartymirrors: github-bad-urls http://github.com/downloads/ https://github.com/downloads/ -- Thanks, Zac
