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authorCiaran McCreesh <ciaranm@snowmobile.(none)>2008-02-18 16:10:49 +0000
committerCiaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>2008-02-19 19:06:09 +0000
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Clarify that paths may appear in mirror:// URIs
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\begin{verbatim}
<mirror name> <mirror 1> <mirror 2> ... <mirror n>
\end{verbatim}
-Fields are whitespace-delimited. When parsing a URI of the form \t{mirror://name/filename}, the
-\t{thirdpartymirrors} file is searched for a line whose first field is \t{name}. Then the download
-URIs in the subsequent fields have \t{filename} appended to them to generate the URIs from which a
-download is attempted.
+Fields are whitespace-delimited. When parsing a URI of the form \t{mirror://name/path/filename},
+where the \t{path/} part is optional, the \t{thirdpartymirrors} file is searched for a line whose
+first field is \t{name}. Then the download URIs in the subsequent fields have \t{path/filename}
+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.