From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: [PATCH] download: Add official SourceForge mirror. Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:29:50 +0300 Message-ID: <20160724072950.GG4905@debian-netbook> References: <1469210911.1549087.674070209.3110DF3E@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20160722231026.GB19349@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YrlhzR9YrZtruaFS" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRDrP-00008L-Ne for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:30:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRDrL-0001GT-I6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:30:02 -0400 Received: from flashner.co.il ([178.62.234.194]:58747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRDrL-0001GG-AT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:29:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160722231026.GB19349@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --YrlhzR9YrZtruaFS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 07:10:26PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:08:31PM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote: > > This patch mirrors a similar change in nixpkgs [1][2]. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Any objections? >=20 This sounds like a good idea --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --YrlhzR9YrZtruaFS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXlG5uAAoJEPTB05F+rO6TLtEQAIEmXk7Mq8ngh08byhuM4llE qebwpWFIdcYsLCHzUA985CQm0INCILPrLLpvCQ/bSI6b9bsmcm5CD50N+zcDfMmj 6DSq5/JF+v7Bk2698TGxZo2C3N4P8MQHSDzsMyNcoWJlldj2NRe+S9pvR+UkKBRR U+kg8UB9tA6DgH6wCz4c9aSQFAC4r8TB+qc7Q97rWvHyPrX7rKb9lpHUbF4BgxSd 59A97USS4BkqfIR0xyUruQiZK+W9TQWd+mbSKc6nPA01ttrUoS228RJKdycagwhk ZFRxujR0zYohlnSq50RSAxAuYM7ZfnM7inMwiyuSLs59ys0IWpp0H/tg3f8zbyD9 mOyvbXzP78vDKeQ7b+or3UE0ta84c+4NWkSmYtFWJOiTe+lEqcW8bsJVhQyMTiEH UzxIRUjlzcaG6XJVQ2OphZeZsIIwNuYVsqBafyibOyYNVXGVSWcPQMaLz4btyrz4 w/djfbyqlVewIZfV+HLzQ4FypkjVDsoXvESGwfzaiot/4589tfiS5MLyYkmbylzx tifovejHjPTDDGJddVxC3THkQKAxv/kyX/Vl0oM5PQf3qhEs560fEeOA5DfVg7bo C3Anp+4opmCPXA2Tsmy80VlRiBJE1NrTEY4qgCp4K7TJHaDpxgpAp7fhRUmKO5/m jixRmDQN54PRH+fz4/h7 =uUOB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YrlhzR9YrZtruaFS--