Bug 553646

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: skip a mirror tier after having few of the mirrors fail
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2015-06-30 14:07:24 UTC

Some mirror tiers are huge. For example, mirror://apache lists 114 mirrors. Now, if a distfile listed as mirror://apache did not get uploaded to the mirrors yet, it's quite likely Portage will try the 114 mirrors in order. Some of them dead, some of them terribly slow.

Long story short, 20 minutes wasted trying mirrors that don't have the file. I think it would be better if Portage tried N randomly chosen mirrors from a tier and then tried other possible URIs.