Mirror size & completeness of binaries

[Arno Hautala]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
>
> For example, in a future archive_sites.conf:
>
> name       macports
> platform   darwin 18
> urls       https://packages.macports.org/10.14/ \
>            https://foo.bar.packages.macports.org/10.14/
>
> name       macports
> platform   darwin 17
> urls       https://packages.macports.org/10.13/ \
>            https://bar.baz.packages.macports.org/10.13/
>
> ... and so on.
>
> With this layout, it would be trivial to spot if one of the mirrors does
> not actually provide packages for this version. When just excluding
> *darwin_X*, not so easy.

Couldn't the same be achieved by creating a second hierarchy
consisting only of symlinks to the locations under the original
hierarchy?

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