On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:11 +0000
> "Robin H. Johnson" <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> > >> $ ./mirrors.py --all --count
>> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net
>> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net/get
>> > >> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net
>> > >> 88 ?? ?? ??http://pecl.php.net/get
>> > > These are already mirror bouncers. If you visit the above, you'll
>> > > get the closest mirror for downloading.
>> > And since there is already ~10 "mirrors" with only one actual
>> > backend, should they go to thirdpartymirrors or not ? If not, what
>> > about this pseudo-mirrors already present in thirdpartymirrors ?
>> I think we should add the pseudo-mirrors, but explicitly mark them as
>> such in the file, so that they don't get duplicate entries added (eg
>> adding us.pear, de.pear and the pear bouncer is bad. Should have just
>> the bouncer).
>
> It'd be great if we could add some kind of additional mirror entries,
> which would be used by repoman to signal missing mirror:// entries but
> won't be used for downloads.

Yep, we could put that in it too:
github          http://github.com/downloads/ https://github.com/downloads/
nongnu          http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/

(I'm not really sure for nongnu).


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