I've noticed the behavior as well. I'd not really noticed the 2
master mirrors thing, but I keep choosing for fink to try another
mirror until it finds one that has the latest version; option 3
(another mirror in your country) until that's no longer an option,
then option 4 (mirrors in other countries) if my memory serves me
correctly.
My two cents on the 'SkipPrompts:fetch": I'd like it to automatically
follow my stubborn behavior & try all the mirrors. I'm sure there's
reasons for only wanting to use one or two specific mirrors (maybe
bandwidth or they are accessible through a local LAN or whatever) so
it'd be good to have the option as well to have it skip prompts &
configured to where it ONLY checks specified mirrors too. I'm sure
that'd be easy to set up. :-)
Anyways, thanks for all the hard work fellas,
Brandon Potter
On Sep 12, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
On Sep 12, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
The "distfiles" mirrors are guaranteed to fail for a while when new
sources are added to the distribution--either new versions of
existing
packages, new packages, additional sources for docs, what have you.
There's a FAQ on this.
Also, because this failure is expected to happen sometimes, recent
fink (since 0.24.8) will try only two master mirrors, instead of
trying every last one.
When 0.25.x is released, you'll be able to put 'SkipPrompts: fetch'
in your fink.conf, and Fink will automatically keep trying mirrors
until it gives up, instead of waiting for your input every time a
mirror fails.
Dave
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