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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> Master site should be on the lists, if its not file a bug.
>
> Theres really very little we can do on the sorcery side to fix the problem
> of only the master site having the source (how are we supposed to
> know?). However when sorcery expands urls it keeps the requested urls
> (the ones listed in the spell) first. So a spell could list the main site
> explicitly (rather than GNU_URL), of course the order gets re-arranged
> the next layer down if netselect is used *sigh*.
>
> Theres a very marginal benefit to adding a field in DETAILS like
> "NO_URL_EXPAND=1" or something equally clever, then the spell could have
> that bit set, and the SOURCE_URL set to a site known to have the source,
> then once the source is reasonably distributed remove the NO_URL_EXPAND
> tag. Of course I wonder how often it is the case that only one site in
> the world has the source...  (just looking at cost/benefit analysis)

That's probably not worth it as (from my experience) the mirrors are only up 
to
a day behind (some SF mirrors are a little slower, but that's very few). I'd
rather not explicitly list a URL if it's included in the mirrors list as that
just seems redundant to me. Could netselect and/or Sorcery do a check to see 
if
the file even exists before trying to download it or would that just add more
headaches for little to no gain?

-sandalle

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