Re: [fink-core] Fwd: Re: Best option to select a particular mirror for wget/curl download

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

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On 9/27/11 8:10 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> 
> Am 27.09.2011 um 13:41 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> 
>> My thought here is that it looks like we'd have to do
>> significant extra coding to do explicit mirror selection from
>> sourceforge now, so instead we might want to start having
>> packages use
>> 
>> Source:
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/<path/to/tarball/>
>> 
>> rather than
>> 
>> Source: mirror:sourceforge:<path/to/tarball>
> 
> I agree with the idea that we should not try to fight SF.net's
> system of automatically choosing a "good" mirror. But do we really
> need to change packages for this? Can't we just change the
> definition of the sourceforge mirror to only contain
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net?
> 
> Cheers, Max

Sounds good to me.  I've verified that

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/

works as a mirror:sourceforge entry.

If nobody has objections, I can set this up in HEAD.  One thing I've
noted is that sourceforge's automatic mirror chooser sometimes will
pick a mirror that doesn't work, so users would need to retry the
"same" URL--which should get kicked over to a new mirror.
- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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