[Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

[Ben Hines]

I am currently testing my fink mirror patch. It adds a "fink" mirror 
that is intended to hold a mirror of every source tarball, so there 
will no longer be any breaking URLs.

It uses a preference:

1) Check fink mirrors first
2) Check closest mirrors first (mixes fink and whatever mirror set, or 
original URL the package is - assume fink mirrors are closer than 
original source URL. Perhaps we could add something like Source: 
nam:us:http://www.foo.com/tar.gz  ? )
3) Try original source mirrors first - fink last

If any download fails, the user can go to the "next set" of mirrors, 
for example if they are on preference 3, they will get "Retry using 
direct fink mirrors" as a choice, if they are on preference 1, they 
will get "Retry using external source mirrors".

Anyone able to set up a full fink tarball mirror so i can test? :) Its 
probably only a few gigs.

Things not worked out yet:

- autosync of sources: Need a machine running "fink selfupdate-cvs; 
fink fetch-all; rsync to server" every 10 minutes or something similar. 
Any ideas there? OpenDarwin is going to help with this. Only need one 
machine to do that, the other mirrors can sync with that one.

-Ben



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