On 08/01/14 10:11 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:12:59 +0000 > "Robin H. Johnson" <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> I was also asked by a user to make it possible to adjust the priority >> of some mirror URLs, instead of only random choice. > > While we are at it, we could add keywords for (global) regions, so > that I can set portage to look for a European mirror and portage will > avoid contacting a distant mirror in Asia or America. > > It's probably worth it in the long run to do a little more here than > have users simply express priorities for specific mirrors. > > We could probably set up the path structure like this: > > profiles/thirdpartymirrors/gnu/Europe > > and add a blacklist/whitelist/priority structure > in /etc/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors, maybe? > > Portage might even use the local system's timezone to determine what > mirror set to use. >
Eww. Geographically-close files should be made available through GENTOO_MIRRORS and the regular distfiles system.
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