Re: [gentoo-dev] several ebuilds contains RESTRICT="nomirror"

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Or you could setup DISTDIR as an NFS share...

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 17:12, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:36:56 +0100
> Jan Schubert <Jan.Schubert@×××.li> wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why many packages are using RESTRICT="nomirror"?
>
> I guess that there is no reason to mirror stuffs that are already
> enough mirrored elsewhere, like package from sourceforge.
>
> > Any way to force the use of a (local) mirror in such cases?
>
> /etc/portage/mirrors. From `man portage`:
>   You may also set a special mirrortype called "local".  This
>   list of mirrors will be checked before GENTOO_MIRRORS and
>   be used even if the package has RESTRICT="nomirror".