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[evraire AT tuwg.com]

Hello,

Lace wrote:
> It is the sorcery's job.
> Sorcery should trying to download from MIRROR defined by the user. 
> It this MIRROR doesn't contain sources, sorcery should CHECK Main Site 
> (they are defined in /etc/sorcery/config GNU_URL,...) if it really offer 
> sources. If Main Site doesn't contain sources (trying to download old 
> version) sorcery should download them from our fallback URLs. 
> If Main Site contains required sources, sorcery should try two or three 
> MIRRORS and if they doesn't contais them, sorcery should download it from 
> our fall back or the Main Site.

  I like this idea.  After a few mirror sites fail, there is probably very 
little gained in continuing to try other mirrors.  Checking the main site 
first, then resorting to our mirrors sounds like the next logical thing to 
do.  How much work would this be to implement?

  Jonathan Evraire
  evraire at tuwg.com


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