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Bug 62798

Summary: WISH: Select server type for mirrorselect
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann>
Component: [OLD] UnspecifiedAssignee: Colin Kingsley (RETIRED) <tercel>
Status: VERIFIED LATER    
Severity: enhancement CC: tools-portage
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Ernst Bachmann 2004-09-04 03:19:13 UTC
It would be great if one could specify a mirror type (ftp or http) when running mirrorselect.

Some firewall setups don't allow ftp, or, in my case, ftp traffic is routed over a seperate, high volume line, so I don't want to use http mirrors.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-01 11:32:48 UTC
I will look into this for my next update.
unfortunately this might not be until after 2005.0

Thank you for your interest and the suggestion though :)
Comment 2 Colin Kingsley (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-06 01:46:34 UTC
I have taken over maintainership of mirrorselect.
Comment 3 Colin Kingsley (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-06 01:47:33 UTC
I like this idea. I will work on implementing it after the new version of
mirrorselect goes stable. Thanks for the input!
Comment 4 Colin Kingsley (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-11 22:39:50 UTC
Added in testing release