On 3/31/20 6:21 PM, Samuel Bernardo wrote: > > But after your explanation, I understand now that mirror types provides > alias to use in ebuild SRC_URI, specially useful for the update task > (awesome). >
Beware: thirdpartymirrors doesn't really do anything useful for normal ebuilds in ::gentoo. The gentoo infrastructure will automatically mirror anything in SRC_URI unless you set RESTRICT=mirror -- and that's where most people will download them from -- so (for example) adding a bunch of extra thirdpartymirrors entries to ensure that the distfiles are accessible is counter-productive: everyone will get the stuff from the gentoo mirrors anyway, and you wind up with a bunch of dead entries in the thirdpartymirrors file (at least half of the entries in there right now are dead, and no one is ever going to clean them up because no one uses them).
