On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 04:51:38PM -0400, Ido Rosen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:32:49PM +0000, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > > > 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 > > > > This can't work. If the first source fails to download, makepkg will > > abort. > > > > What about just detecting if source is an array/list (keep current > behavior), or a dictionary/lookup table (new fancy mirror behavior)? If > it's a dictionary/lookup table, then try all mirrors before failing a > source download. > > For examples of how to create lookup tables in bash, see > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1494178/how-to-define-hash-tables-in-bash...
bash4's associative arrays define a 1:1 mapping of string to string. You cannot have multiple elements in the "value." Not to mention that we won't be changing the format of the 'source' variable any time soon.