Bug 290598 – [TRACKER] Deprecate mirrors.xml page

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Mirrors

[Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-10-26 17:42:50 UTC]

Eventually, I want to deprecate this page.

Todo:
- mirrorselect-2.0.0 needs to be stable on all arches
- New mirrorstats.g.o deployment that uses mirrors3.xml
    - Staged at mirrorstats.jolexa.net until ready

[Comment 1 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2009-10-26 20:32:48 UTC]

Created attachment 208349 [details]
mirrors.xml dummy

Please add a dummy like in my attachment.
That would look like: http://dev.gentoo.org/~idl0r/tmp/mirrorselect.png

Users which are still using mirrorselect < 2.0.0 are able to select at least the global distfiles mirror and they'll see the update notification as well.
The behaviour in non-interactive mode might be unexpected.

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2009-10-26 20:55:30 UTC]

idl0r: that attachment doesn't pass XML validation. Please fix that. Also look at where the redirect is done (at the top of mirrors.xml).

[Comment 3 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2009-10-26 23:35:40 UTC]

Created attachment 208382 [details]
mirrors.xml dummy-2

Try this one.

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2009-10-28 01:34:55 UTC]

idl0r:
still doesn't pass validation - You missed changing a < to &gt;.
drop the old authors too.

[Comment 5 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2009-10-28 19:56:14 UTC]

hm, validation was fine here *wonders
Does the '>' cause an error? mirrorselect doesn't understand > thats why I wrote '>' instead of >

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2009-10-28 20:29:55 UTC]

I'm using strict XML validation, that says any <> must either be in a CDATA block or part of a element.

Why does mirrorselect fail on the entity? It should be decoding it.

[Comment 7 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2009-10-28 20:56:50 UTC]

It'll ignore it and you'll get "=app-portage/mirrorselect-2.0.0".

[Comment 8 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2009-10-28 22:46:06 UTC]

Created attachment 208587 [details]
mirrors.xml dummy-3

I've removed all authors except one since there must be at least one author element.

[Comment 9 Robin Johnson 2009-12-03 10:25:56 UTC]

The new mirrors.xml to redirect users is now committed.