FS#520 - Mirror Selector for Source

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Matthew (kritoke) - Sunday, 07 March 2004, 22:52 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I think there should be some sort of script to call a particular mirror for a major package in Arch. Mainly for sourceforge programs, it would be nice to something like $sourceforgemirror/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz, that way if a sourceforge mirror goes down or gets busy, have it go to the next available mirror. Similar things for kde and gnome apps would be nice as well.
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Closed by  dorphell (dorphell)
Monday, 08 March 2004, 03:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by dorphell (dorphell) - Monday, 08 March 2004, 03:38 GMT
There's no need to do that, sf.net's mirror-manager already does that for you. simply have your source=() url be somthing like:
http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz
instead of
http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz
Comment by dorphell (dorphell) - Monday, 08 March 2004, 03:38 GMT
Nothing here.. closed

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