When using mirrorselect to get mirrors for make.conf, it would be great if it could also set the "gentoo" mirror in thirdpartymirrors, to allow portage to only use the fastest mirrors when an ebuild looks for a file hosted on mirror://gentoo in SRC_URI.
Chris, could you give an actual example where this request makes sense? For the record, portage fetch order for mirror://gentoo files is: - GENTOO_MIRRORS - local in /etc/portage/mirrors - gentoo in /etc/portage/mirrors - gentoo in $PORTDIR/thirdpartymirrors so if mirrorselect sets both GENTOO_MIRRORS and /etc/portage/mirrors::gentoo to the same servers portage will simply try the same locations twice. Unless of course there is an ebuild with mirror://gentoo and mirror restriction, but that would be a contradiction somehow.
(In reply to comment #1) > Chris, could you give an actual example where this request makes sense? > For the record, portage fetch order for mirror://gentoo files is: > - GENTOO_MIRRORS > - local in /etc/portage/mirrors > - gentoo in /etc/portage/mirrors > - gentoo in $PORTDIR/thirdpartymirrors Starting with which portage version? I'm just curious. > so if mirrorselect sets both GENTOO_MIRRORS and /etc/portage/mirrors::gentoo to > the same servers portage will simply try the same locations twice. > Unless of course there is an ebuild with mirror://gentoo and mirror > restriction, but that would be a contradiction somehow. Funny that you mention this. We have a few of them in games. One example is games-rpg/nwn-data.
(In reply to comment #2) > Starting with which portage version? I'm just curious. As long as I can remember, so at least 2.0.50.
I guess we don't need this, then.
