On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote: > > On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an > > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI > > > first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from > > > GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? > > > > This is undesirable behaviour - te mirrors exist because SRC_URI may > > often have limited bandwidth. > > > > The package's hosting may be donated to the software's author, for > > instance, by a 3rd party, so when you go directly to SRC_URI, avoiding > > mirrors, you wear out the author's welcome. > > > > Mirrors are hosted by people with gallons & gallons of bandwidth to > > spare, who expect you to use it. > > > > It makes sense to use the mirrors FIRST. > > Definitely. > > I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get > them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better > quality bits than my ftp server... > > By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international > bandwidth instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months, > when Fedora or Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire > pipe into this *country* - just to get isos that I already have publicly > available and am begging them to use.
my university has a nice volume cap for all students. But everything downloaded from its own network - including the ftp servers is 'free' - only outside traffic counts. Luckily, my university hosts a major gentoo mirror. Not rsync, but distfiles. They also have ubuntu, suse, fedora stuff. Windows updates.. and still people don't use it. Annoying.
