[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Added mirror support to makepkg's source array.

[Xyne]

On 2013-11-18 12:09 +1000
Allan McRae wrote:

>What did you think about the proposal in an earlier reply to this thread:
>
>source=("mirror://_foo/blah/blah/foo.tar.gz")
>_foo=("http://foo.com/" "http://bar.com/")
>
>I think we can bet safely that "mirror://" will not become a valid
>protocol.  And we are replacing the start of the URL so just using the
>initial "/" as the delimiter is fine.
>
>Allan

That works, but I would prefer differential syntax to prevent confusion with
regular URLs. "MIRROR://" should be enough. It stands out, and we already use
upper-case for "SKIP" in the checksums array, so I think it is stylistically
coherent.

Regards,
Xyne