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  • From: Remko van der Vossen <wich AT yuugen.jp>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Biting Bullets
  • Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 11:04:08 +0200

On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 12:13:18PM -0500, David Kowis wrote:
> On this topic, SF.net changed it's mirror mechanism entirely. I can't
> remember right now how it actually works, but they select the mirrors
> for you, rather than having to cycle through them. It uses http
> redirects iirc.
>
> But yeah, our SOURCE_FORGE scheme for picking mirrors is fundamentally
> broken right now.

Yeah, I suggest we drop the whole SOURCEFORGE_URL thing entirely, any
spell I touched that uses it I just remove it completely and replace it
by the url I get by browsing the files section of the sf.net project
page of the package. That works and does automatic mirror selection.

Regards, Remko




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