Hello,
On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>Example from app-editors/emacs/emacs-24.5-r5 :
>
>SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/emacs/${P}.tar.xz
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/${P}-patches-4.tar.xz";
It means take one of the list specified in /etc/portage/mirrors/ or
${PORTAGE_DIR}/profiles/thirdpartymirrors
==== man 5 portage =====
/etc/portage/
[..]
mirrors
Whenever portage encounters a mirror:// style URI it will
look up the actual hosts here. If the mirror set is not
found here, it will check the global mirrors file at
/usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors.
====
See also https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GENTOO_MIRRORS
So, using your example, portage looks up the mirror for mirror://gnu
by looking in /etc/portage/mirrors (if it exists) and
/usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors for a line with the word "gnu"
at the beginning, and then tries the mirrors specified there. I.e.:
# grep '^gnu[[:space:]]' /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors
gnu http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/
So, portage will try http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/${P}.tar.xz and
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/${P}.tar.xz to retrieve the tarball.
HTH,
-dnh
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