Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/thirdpartymirrors: add final fallback for apache

2024-10-26 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 10/26/24 1:03 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > This does not actually do it "last" as you claim. > > Portage shuffles the list of thirdpartymirrors: > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/lib/portage/package/ebuild/fetch.py#n1140 > > While it increases mirror burden; this should likely

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/thirdpartymirrors: add final fallback for apache

2024-10-26 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 26/10/2024 17.25, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 1:03 AM Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: Apache has a mirror network, which only covers the most recent release of any given package. They also have an additional site which do

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/thirdpartymirrors: add final fallback for apache

2024-10-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 1:03 AM Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > > Apache has a mirror network, which only covers the most recent release > > of any given package. They also have an additional site which does not > > appear to be a CDN, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/thirdpartymirrors: add final fallback for apache

2024-10-25 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Apache has a mirror network, which only covers the most recent release > of any given package. They also have an additional site which does not > appear to be a CDN, and is throttled and can maybe ban you if you use it > too much. Unfo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/thirdpartymirrors: add final fallback for apache

2024-10-25 Thread Sam James
Eli Schwartz writes: > Apache has a mirror network, which only covers the most recent release > of any given package. They also have an additional site which does not > appear to be a CDN, and is throttled and can maybe ban you if you use it > too much. Unfortunately, it is also the ONLY way to a

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/thirdpartymirrors: add final fallback for apache

2024-10-22 Thread Eli Schwartz
Apache has a mirror network, which only covers the most recent release of any given package. They also have an additional site which does not appear to be a CDN, and is throttled and can maybe ban you if you use it too much. Unfortunately, it is also the ONLY way to actually get historic releases o