Bug 673384

Summary:	mirrorselect: should handle http and https for the same address
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	fturco, mattst88
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730994
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2018-12-18 10:12:29 UTC

The first 2 points to the same locations, just 1 should be used IMO:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ https://ftp.fau.de/gentoo https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"

Comment 1 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2022-05-31 18:31:54 UTC

I am in the process of adding https:// filtering option to mirrorselect.  This will require the distfiles.xml change for https:// urls to be listed as https protocol.

My question is: If no filter is applied to the list, which url does mirrorselect use?  the https:// or the http:// variant, or first one wins?...

Comment 2 Francesco Turco 2022-06-01 08:56:16 UTC

Personally, I would prefer https mirrors to be the default.