Hello, I've checked mirrors in the mplayer mirror group from profiles/thirdparymirrors and it would appear that 2 of the listed 8 are dead: Testing "mplayer" mirror group... good: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer good: http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer bad: http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer bad: http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer good: http://www5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer good: http://www7.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer good: http://www8.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer good: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/multimedia/MPlayer This also lines up with what I see on http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html (left hand column, WWW Mirrors), they have delisted www3 & www4 mirrors there. One solution would be to just remove these mirrors, but is this mirror list really needed? The files are mirrored on gentoo so there are already very few fetches from the upstream servers. Just because there EXISTS a list of mirrors upstream doesn't mean we really need to copy & maintain that full list on gentoo =) Just my 2 cents. Thanks!
(In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #0) > One solution would be to just remove these mirrors since you've basically done all the work, would you mind sending a github PR removing those ? >, but is this mirror list > really needed? mirror://mplayer is used by mplayer ebuilds, so removing the list requires fixing the ebuilds; the list probably does not provide much gain but since upstream provides them and they're already in place on our side I'd rather keep it :)
I created a PR, this is my first one so please let me know if there are problems with it. https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/279
(In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #2) > I created a PR, this is my first one so please let me know if there are > problems with it. > > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/279 merged, thanks!
