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) -- Eli Schwartz
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