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Sancho2k.net Lists wrote:
>Marius Mauch said:
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>>On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:07:03 +0100
>>TRauMa <trauma@...> wrote:
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>>>2. How can I tell portage to ignore fetch restricitions? If I
>>>encounter one, I manually pull in the file as portage tells me to, but
>>>I'm not keen on pulling it on every client, too. So it would be
>>>perfect if I could tell the clients to just try and fetch the
>>>restricted files from the local mirror.
>>>
>>>
>>You can't. It wouldn't be completely impossible to add support for this,
>>but it would need a nontrivial amount of work and make the code even
>>more complicated (read the 'fetch' function in portage.py and you'll
>>understand ;).
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>Not neccesarily a good idea, but an idea nonetheless, is to NFS mount
>/usr/portage/distfiles/ as a share that contains pre-fetched distribution
>files.
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As I said, that would either mean mount ro and don't let the client
download additional tarballs or mount rw and enter concurrent emerging &
fetching nightmare land... :-)
Greets
T.
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