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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:34:57AM -0500, Allen Parker wrote: |
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> I think it'd be a good idea for portage-ng to include better localization |
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> features (specifically relating to mirrors). I've recently been plagued with |
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> RESTRICT="nomirror" being set in recent mysql 4.0.x ebuilds causing my |
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> filefetching operations to take considerable amounts of time when they |
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> should actually be the fastest. (my example is 30kb/s from argentina instead |
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> of the regular 4Mb/s from gentoo.mirrors.pair.com) |
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portage-2.0.50 already has support several new files in /etc/portage, including a file to set local mirrors to override the nomirror restriction. There is no documentation for them yet though, search bugs.gentoo.org for "thirdpartymirrors" for a detailed explanation. |
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Marius |
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