On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 04:51:38PM -0400, Ido Rosen wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:32:49PM +0000, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > This can't work. If the first source fails to download, makepkg will > > > abort. > > > > > > > What about just detecting if source is an array/list (keep current > > behavior), or a dictionary/lookup table (new fancy mirror behavior)? If > > it's a dictionary/lookup table, then try all mirrors before failing a > > source download. > > > > For examples of how to create lookup tables in bash, see > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1494178/how-to-define-hash-tables-in-bash. > .. > > bash4's associative arrays define a 1:1 mapping of string to string. You > cannot have multiple elements in the "value." Not to mention that we > won't be changing the format of the 'source' variable any time soon. > Okay, that leaves either Jerome's suggestion (if duplicate filenames are detected, treat them as mirrors and don't fail/abort as long as one of them works); supporting source() as a function instead of just as an array; or creating a new variable that can handle mirrors...or doing nothing.
