Bug 404405

Summary:	Allow multiple entries in SYNC
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Daniel Nilsson <gentoo>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Nilsson 2012-02-18 15:32:56 UTC

I'm using the rsync.se.gentoo.org rotation, but since it only contain one server emerge --sync fails if that one is down. I would like a way to make portage fall back to another rotation when to first one is exhausted.
I propose to add support for more than one entry in SYNC (or some other way to achieve the same function).



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync
Actual Results:  
!!! Exhausted addresses for rsync.se.gentoo.org

Expected Results:  
Fallback to another rsync rotation.

A workaround is to just use a larger rotation such as rsync.europe.gentoo.org instead. But this is not optimal, some servers there are quite a lot slower than those close to where I live.
I count at least 10 countries with just one server, so this feature would benefit users in all those countries.

Comment 1 df 2012-05-17 04:13:48 UTC

Is this issue a duplicate of Bug 275854?

I agree with this propose.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-05-17 04:41:58 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 275854 ***