From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] download: Add official SourceForge mirror.
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:10:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160722231026.GB19349@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469210911.1549087.674070209.3110DF3E@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:08:31PM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote:
> This patch mirrors a similar change in nixpkgs [1][2].
>
> The official method for downloading from SourceForge is to use
> downloads.sourceforge.net, which redirects to various other mirrors. It
> can be unreliable, but also faster because it can find a nearby mirror
> and load-balance. If it fails Guix will still fall back to known good
> mirrors.
I think it's a good idea. It wouldn't have helped with the latest
problem, where the project-specific parts of the URL changed. But, if
our users can automatically use closer mirrors, that seems best.
Any objections?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-22 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-22 18:08 [PATCH] download: Add official SourceForge mirror Alex Griffin
2016-07-22 23:10 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-07-24 7:29 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-07-24 16:36 ` Leo Famulari
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://guix.gnu.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160722231026.GB19349@jasmine \
--to=leo@famulari.name \
--cc=a@ajgrf.com \
--cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).