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

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

Am 27.09.2011 um 13:41 schrieb Alexander Hansen:

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> 
> 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