On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote: > 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.
Definitely. I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better quality bits than my ftp server... By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international bandwidth instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months, when Fedora or Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire pipe into this *country* - just to get isos that I already have publicly available and am begging them to use. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
