Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:11:05
Message-Id: 200403111510.55370.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage by Scott Taylor
1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 14:54, Scott Taylor wrote:
2 > RESTRICT="nomirror" can be added to your ebuild to do just that.
3 >
4 > however, i would find use for a make.conf option where i could list
5 > mirrors (or nfs mounts, etc) that would always be checked before gentoo
6 > mirrors, sourceforge mirrors, ignoring the "nomirror" option...
7
8 Such a list allready exists in the /etc/portage/mirrors file (man 5 portage).
9 However an option to skip the mirrors from the command line might be an
10 option, but I find that the time costs are only minimal in any case.
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12 Paul
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15 Paul de Vrieze
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