On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Ido Rosen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > What's the current recommended way to support multiple mirrors for the > same source file in a PKGBUILD? For example, I have xyz-123.tar.gz that > can be downloaded from any of "http://a.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz"; " > http://b.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz"; > "http://c.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz"...but > one of these may be down at any given time. > > If there's no support for this in the sources array itself, we should > strongly consider adding it. For example, an ad-hoc way: > > _pick_source_mirror() { > # ... do something smart in here > } > source=( > "xyz-123::$(_pick_source_mirror( > http://a.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz > http://b.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz > http://c.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz > ))" > ) > > A less ad-hoc way: > source() { > #...some code that returns a list of URLs/files > } > > Another way: > source=(...files without mirrors as usual...) > sourcemirrored=( xyz-123::($mirroraURL $mirrorbURL $mirrorcURL) ) > > Mirrored sources seem like a common enough phenomenon that it's worth > special treatment to make the source PKGBUILD variable more versatile if > they're not currently supported. Thoughts? > > Ido
What about reusing the "filename" feature; if it sees multiple times the same files it treats it as a mirror, eg. "file.tar.gz::http://example.com/file.tar.gz"; "file.tar.gz::http://mirror.example.com/file.tar.gz"; J. Leclanche
