On 14 Jan 2014, at 17:11, Louis Gesbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Last addition was the possibility for packagers to specify `archive: 
> ["upstream-url" "mirror1" "mirror2"]` in the url files, so that we have a way 
> to circumvent downtime of package hosting servers -- like recently happened 
> for camlcity with dire consequences for new OPAM installations (ocamlfind 
> could not be installed). We are working on a more general mirroring solution 
> for the next release.

I don't think this should be included in 1.1.1, since it changes the repository 
format.  For instance, is there a clear backwards compatibility story for 1.1.0 
clients that connect to a repository that includes multiple archives?

-anil

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