>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Over my dead CVS access.
> Grandstanding aside, it is probably best to take this in chunks. > The all-or-nothing fetch restriction control does seem like a good > place to start improving. I could certainly see where that could > create needless problems. It just hasn't been much of an issue > because fetch restriction is rare. Mirror restriction is likely a > bigger problem even if it is somewhat user-invisible. Do we really > want to hammer something like dev.gentoo.org for patches that aren't > properly mirrored because the original source cannot be? Trying to get this thread back on track: This part was already proposed in bug 371413. I guess the main problem is to come up with a good syntax for SRC_URI or RESTRICT. "restrict+http:" (as suggested by the OP) is probably not enough because it doesn't distinguish between fetch and mirror restriction. Ulrich
