790506 – app-portage/mirrorselect should select mirrors for overlays other than ::gentoo

Bug 790506 - app-portage/mirrorselect should select mirrors for overlays other than ::gentoo

Summary: app-portage/mirrorselect should select mirrors for overlays other than ::gentoo

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2021-05-16 11:33 UTC by Einstok Fair
Modified:	2021-05-16 16:49 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Einstok Fair 2021-05-16 11:33:52 UTC

When author of overlay make the package for SRC_URI like
https://someproject.org/downloads/sources-ver.tar.gz"
he can provide source distribution mirror for the case
if someproject.org will go down or became discontinued.

mirrorselect tool should allow to select one of specific servers for the overlay from the list of all servers in the overlay mirror.

Now it doesn't:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect

Comment 1 Einstok Fair 2021-05-16 11:37:32 UTC

see also https://bugs.gentoo.org/790500