Bug 2481 – Portage Domain Name aliases

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-05-05 19:23:34 UTC]

It appears sourceforge is supporting mirrors now...  Downloading from
prdownloads.sf.net doesn't work all the time, atleast for strace (#2449). 
Browsing to http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/strace/ leads to SF asking for us
to select a mirror to download from.  A fix to the problem is select a mirror
(in my case I chose telia.dl.sf.net), and everything works fine.

A proposed long term solution is for portage to support domain name aliases, like:
${SOURCEFORGE_US_MIRROR}, or ${SOURCEFORGE_AUS_MIRROR} etc.  karltk proposed the
mirror file could be located in /etc/make.profile/mirrors.  The file can get
sourced in the same environment as the ebuild.

[Comment 1 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-05-05 19:35:13 UTC]

oops.  It should be ${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR} in ebuilds, and within the
/etc/make.profile/mirrors the user should be able to set the mirror location.

[Comment 2 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-05-07 22:02:44 UTC]

*** Bug 2554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Sandy McArthur 2002-05-07 22:38:29 UTC]

I'm currently working on a script to fix this.

[Comment 4 Sandy McArthur 2002-05-08 00:10:06 UTC]

Created attachment 890 [details]
fix-sf-urls.sh

Download to: "fix-sf-urls.sh". make it executable with `chmod a+x
fix-sf-urls.sh` . Then run it like: `/path/to/fix-sf-urls.sh /usr/portage /tmp`

[Comment 5 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-05-24 01:31:47 UTC]

I believe this bug has been resolved... true?

[Comment 6 Sandy McArthur 2002-05-24 09:06:50 UTC]

Yes, or at least a fix is being tested and will be available soon.