On Wednesday 17 February 2010 09:22:38 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Is mirror:// really useful? Or can we do it via exlibs?
In gentoo the gentoo mirrors are used first for packages in gentoo-x86 (and iirc for overlays with gentoo-x86 as master_repository). In exherbo we currently appear to need to use a * mirror to get similar behaviour for with exherbo mirrors (we currently have two). Similar but not identical behaviour. * mirrors are used for fetch restricted packages and for mirrror restricted packages etc. In exheres-for-smarties we currently have a list of DOWNLOADS labels which would allow this kind of functionality (but which doesn't really seem to be implemented properly so far). If we drop mirror:// we would lose this functionality, wouldn't we? So people would have to use * mirrors for avoiding getting fetch failures whenever some upstream decides to remove an old tarball? Would we then add those * mirrors to arbor or tell people to do it themselves? Also does this have any implications for how we handle packages that can't legally be mirrored? -- Bo Andresen
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