Bug 683

Summary:	Need support for alternative URIs in SRC_URI
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Arcady Genkin <agenkin-gentoo-bugzilla>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arcady Genkin 2002-02-13 10:32:04 UTC

The ebuild files should allow specifying multiple mirrors for pulling the
sources.  For example, in the case of net-mail/tmda, the software maintainer
usually keeps only the latest release in foo.bar/releases/.  As soon as the next
release comes out, the previous one is moved into foo.bar/old/.  This means that
until the .ebuild is updated for the new release, it will contain an invalid URI
for the sources.

Given that currently SRC_URI treats a list of URIs as multiple files, that need
to be downloaded to build the package, implementing this feature would not be
too easy.  As as starting point, I propose adding optional alternate URIs in
variables SRC_URI[1-9].  This will limit the number of supported backups to 9,
but I think that this is *way* more than enough.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-13 15:31:14 UTC

Can't you just list *both* possible URIs in SRC_URI?  The downloader should try
them both in succession.