kdesupport/emerge/portage/gnuwin32

[Jeff Mitchell]

Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Ralf Habacker schrieb:
>> Jeff Mitchell schrieb:
>>> It's a good first step, but as I said in my email to kde-windows, it 
>>> doesn't fix the problem.  Instead of downloading 302 error messages, 
>>> it now downloads zero-byte files.
>>>
>>>   
>> the address http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32/... 
>> will be redirected to a real mirror. In the last time there are two 
>> server I recognized which sometimes fails. These are 
>> garr.dl.sourceforge.net and puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net
>>
>> I suggest to use 
>> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32 or 
>> http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32
>>
>> May be we can use a generic url in emerge to not have to switch every 
>> ebuild file.
Good idea.  Perhaps we can have it be set to the environment in 
kdesettings.bat so the user can choose a mirror near them (or default to 
kent).

--Jeff