[aur-general] Support for source mirror lists in PKGBUILD

[Ido Rosen]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:32:49PM +0000, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> > What about reusing the "filename" feature; if it sees multiple times
> > the same files it treats it as a mirror, eg.
> > "file.tar.gz::http://example.com/file.tar.gz"
> > "file.tar.gz::http://mirror.example.com/file.tar.gz"
> >
> > J. Leclanche
>
> This can't work. If the first source fails to download, makepkg will
> abort.
>

What about just detecting if source is an array/list (keep current
behavior), or a dictionary/lookup table (new fancy mirror behavior)?  If
it's a dictionary/lookup table, then try all mirrors before failing a
source download.

For examples of how to create lookup tables in bash, see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1494178/how-to-define-hash-tables-in-bash...