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

[Ido Rosen]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Ido Rosen <ido at kernel.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
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>> 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"
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>> > J. Leclanche
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>> This can't work. If the first source fails to download, makepkg will
>> abort.
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> 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.
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> For examples of how to create lookup tables in bash, see
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1494178/how-to-define-hash-tables-in-bash...
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Just to be clear, I meant a dictionary/lookup table of strings or list
values, e.g.:

source=( ["file.tar.gz"]=("http://a.com/file.tar.gz" "
http://b.com/file.tar.gz") ) # would indicate file.tar.gz has 2 mirror URLs.