That would be good too, don't know why I didn't think about that simple solution. :-)
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Ido Rosen <i...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > What's the current recommended way to support multiple mirrors for the > > same source file in a PKGBUILD? For example, I have xyz-123.tar.gz that > > can be downloaded from any of "http://a.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz" " > > http://b.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz" > > "http://c.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz"...but > > one of these may be down at any given time. > > > > If there's no support for this in the sources array itself, we should > > strongly consider adding it. For example, an ad-hoc way: > > > > _pick_source_mirror() { > > # ... do something smart in here > > } > > source=( > > "xyz-123::$(_pick_source_mirror( > > http://a.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz > > http://b.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz > > http://c.example.com/xyz-123.tar.gz > > ))" > > ) > > > > A less ad-hoc way: > > source() { > > #...some code that returns a list of URLs/files > > } > > > > Another way: > > source=(...files without mirrors as usual...) > > sourcemirrored=( xyz-123::($mirroraURL $mirrorbURL $mirrorcURL) ) > > > > Mirrored sources seem like a common enough phenomenon that it's worth > > special treatment to make the source PKGBUILD variable more versatile if > > they're not currently supported. Thoughts? > > > > Ido > > What about reusing the "filename" feature; if it sees multiple times > the same files it treats it as a mirror, eg. > "file.tar.gz::http://example.com/file.tar.gz" > "file.tar.gz::http://mirror.example.com/file.tar.gz" > > J. Leclanche >