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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

It would take a moderate amount of work.  Does it really matter if it
takes another 20 seconds of trying other mirrors? I'ts not worth the
effort. The main site will be tried eventualy.

On Sun, 2004-22-08 at 15:20 +0000, wrote:
> 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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