On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:49:05 +0000 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
mirror://arbor/ > 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? Labels have pretty much nothing to do with mirror://. mirror:// is just an alias for a list of URIs that's expanded on the package manager side. The only functionality you'd lose is letting users specify their own mirror://sourceforge/. But that's not particularly useful. > So people would have to use * mirrors for avoiding getting fetch > failures whenever some upstream decides to remove an old tarball? No, arbor would work too. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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