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| author |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@snowmobile.(none)> | 2008-02-18 16:12:38 +0000 |
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| committer |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk> | 2008-02-19 19:06:16 +0000 |
| commit | 64fc81af5368b474c51e3dd251b09cd73053329b (patch) | |
| tree | 3570171a476a704211dca8b00c026ac7fe78d3b8 /tree-layout.tex | |
| parent | Clarify that paths may appear in mirror:// URIs (diff) | |
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Package managers may subset and reorder mirrors
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diff --git a/tree-layout.tex b/tree-layout.tex index 7e913bd..58e4858 100644 --- a/tree-layout.tex +++ b/tree-layout.tex @@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ first field is \t{name}. Then the download URIs in the subsequent fields have \t appended to them to generate the URIs from which a download is attempted. Each mirror name may appear at most once in a file. Behaviour when a mirror name appears multiple -times is undefined. Behaviour when a mirror is defined in terms of another mirror is undefined. +times is undefined. Behaviour when a mirror is defined in terms of another mirror is undefined. A +package manager may choose to fetch from all of or a subset of the listed mirrors, and may use an +order other than the one described. \subsection{use.desc and related files} \label{use.desc} |