I'd like to have an option to choose a preferred mirror for third-party mirrors. Specifically, the Sourceforge mirror would be useful because Portage doesn't keep distfiles distributed by Sourceforge, so I'm constantly fetching things from slow or down Sourceforge mirrors, when my ISP actually provides a SF mirror that's incredibly fast and always works for me. I imagine this would be implemented with an option available in make.conf, which could be set something like: PREF_MIRROR_<mirrorname> Or, specifically for sourceforge: PREF_MIRROR_SOURCEFORGE And have this available for any mirror system that Portage knows about. Portage would try the hosts in this variable *first,* and if none of those works then it would go on to do the round-robin style that it uses currently. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
What do you mean with "portage doesn't keep distfiles distributed by Sourceforge"?
It appears that, in order to preserve mirror space (as, I gather, some mirror sites were a bit concerned over the growth of the portage distfiles tree), distfiles which are provided by Sourceforge mirrors are no longer kept on the Gentoo distfiles mirrors (which makes sense, as Sourceforge already has a very good mirroring system in place). A friend of mine who was a Gentoo dev for awhile told me about it, and I've noticed since then that any distfile that gets sent from sourceforge is never found at the Gentoo mirrors (at least the ones that I use),
Adding RESTRICT="nomirror" to the ebuild forces portage not to use the standard mirrors, but only the with SRC_URI defined url.
<quote>Adding RESTRICT="nomirror" to the ebuild forces portage not to use the standard mirrors, but only the with SRC_URI defined url.</quote> Well, that's kind of a different thing though... The ebuilds will contain the "mirror://whatever/wherever.tbz2" like they should; I'd just like to be able to choose a preferred mirror. If RESTRICT="nomirror" is specified, it kind of defeats the purpose and wouldn't work besides ('cause "mirror://" isn't a valid protocol)
Created attachment 18198 [details, diff] add GENTOO_xxx_MIRRORS support this patch adds support for GENTOO_xxx_MIRRORS where xxx is the uppercase version of a mirror type defined in the thirdpartymirrors file, e.g. GENTOO_SOURCEFORGE_MIRRORS. It takes precedence of the normal thirdpartymirrors, but not over GENTOO_MIRRORS., so the order is: GENTOO_MIRRORS, GENTOO_xxx_MIRRORS, mirror://xxx in thirdpartymirrors
*** Bug 3193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
hey CJ
how can RESTRICT="nomirror" be disabled to use an internal box like in bug 10149 ?
Did anyone count the number of ebuilds the that use or should use RESTRICT="nomirror"? I wonder why it's not done the other way around, adding a flag to the mirrored ebuilds automatically?!
For my purposes, I would like to see a LOCAL_MIRROR option, something that would *always* get checked first before considering any of the gentoo_mirrors or sourceforge mirrors or even the src_uri. I've added anonymous ftp pointing at the portage/distfiles directory on one of my servers, so that any packages it has ever retrieved is available for all of my other machines. Any time a nomirror ebuild comes down, all of my other boxes grab it off sourceforge, even though its available locally. Sourceforge is a large enough source of code that it might justify getting its own search list. I would love to see that added as well. They definitely have mirrors that perform better than whichever one usually gets hardcoded into the ebuilds.
I don't understand that last paragraph, where is a sourceforge server hardcoded ?
Hmm, well I guess I just don't know where to set a preferred sourceforge mirror. example ebuild that was not retrieved off my local mirror, and pulled off a *really slow* sourceforge mirror (seems like its always the same one, and always on the other side of the planet) was gaim-0.74: SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/gaim/${P}.tar.bz2 ssl? ( mirror://sourceforge/gaim-encryption/gaim-encryption-${EV}.tar.gz )" RESTRICT="nomirror" So I guess I need to ask where one can set the sourceforge mirror (single server or list of servers), then the wish is still to check a local mirror first, even if it doesn't check the gentoo_mirrors. A package sitting in the distfiles directory wouldn't follow the same directory structure as sourceforge either so I couldn't just list mine as a sourceforge server.
With this patch you would just set GENTOO_SOURCEFORGE_MIRRORS="http://your.mirror"
Created attachment 21771 [details, diff] imrpoved patch using /etc/portage/mirrors I noticed that my original patch was quite unflexible and didn't adress the need for a local mirror completely. So I rewrote it without the GENTOO_XXX_MIRROR variables and using a /etc/portage/mirrors file instead. It has the same syntax as /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors with one little extension: A new mirrortype local that will always be checked first even if the package has a "nomirror" restriction. Also I made a check so that mirror's won't checked twice if you have an official mirror in your custom mirror list.
the patch is nice, but not working for bug #10149 i really want to (force) turn off the nomirror in /etc/make.conf
supposed to be fixed in 2.0.50 which is stable now. If this bug is not fixed please reopen.
Created attachment 28412 [details, diff] FEATURES="ignorenomirror" Pretty please? Its not like trying to bypass a fetch restriction, I'd just like it to check *my* local mirror on my lan first, even with RESTRICT="nomirror"
That's exactly what "local" in /etc/portage/mirrors does.
Argh! So thats what a "custom mirror patch included" is. I wonder how many other great features I haven't noticed yet... Oh well. My bad.
