Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> writes: > On 10/26/24 9:55 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> On 10/26/24 1:03 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >>> This does not actually do it "last" as you claim. >>> >>> Portage shuffles the list of thirdpartymirrors: >>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/lib/portage/package/ebuild/fetch.py#n1140 >>> >>> While it increases mirror burden; this should likely be done as a >>> distinct thirdpartymirror: >>> apache-historical https://archive.apache.org/dist/ >> >> >> Thanks for pointing this out. It's disappointing but my opinion is that >> this changes nothing other than the commit message I should use when >> committing it. > > > This apache issue came up again today, yet another dev got confused by > disappearing files. > > Sam also pointed out he keeps rediscovering this, and adding additional > SRC_URI, which is > > a) quite annoying to do > > b) per Sam, not guaranteed behavior either (but portage happens to do > sequential serial downloads)
I would like to see the archive added to the apache entry in thirdpartymirrors.
