Summary: | Extend "Fetch failed" section with information about GENTOO_MIRRORS maintenance | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer> |
Component: | Installation Handbook | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | dev-portage |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap5 | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED)
2011-04-07 17:03:44 UTC
I realize that this can be very hard with the HTTP and FTP mirrors having different paths, but could we perhaps get a server-side solution for this one? I see that [1] already does soemthing similar for downloading releases, so it's apparently possible. Is there are reason Portage does not try "distfiles.gentoo.org" between the user-supplied ones and the SRC_URI fallback? CCing portage folks for answer; I'll always prefer a technical colution over documentation workarounds. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml (In reply to comment #1) > Is there are reason Portage does not try "distfiles.gentoo.org" between the > user-supplied ones and the SRC_URI fallback? We've discussed this in bug 354555 and I think bug 354555, comment #16 is a reasonable solution. (In reply to comment #2) > We've discussed this in bug 354555 and I think bug 354555, comment #16 is a > reasonable solution. Thanks. I've added a comment there. The GDP believes that it's much better to pester Portage folks to introduce sane defaults :) than to provide detailed documentation about how to copy-paste default settings into configuration files -> WONTFIX. portage has always had sane defaults. the issue is with people who change the defaults (and thus are no longer using the defaults). |