Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Scott Taylor <security@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:54:42
Message-Id: 1079013278.17990.4.camel@Star.BerthoudWireless.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage by Pablo De Napoli
1 RESTRICT="nomirror" can be added to your ebuild to do just that.
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3 however, i would find use for a make.conf option where i could list
4 mirrors (or nfs mounts, etc) that would always be checked before gentoo
5 mirrors, sourceforge mirrors, ignoring the "nomirror" option...
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8 On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 06:41, Pablo De Napoli wrote:
9 > Hi,
10 >
11 > I want to suggest a little inprovement to portage: suppose that I've
12 > created my own ebuild for a package in PORTDIR_OVERLAY
13 > and suppose that no ebuild for this package is included in the
14 > Gentoo portage (in PORTDIR)
15 > Then for sure, the sources are not available in the Gentoo mirrors
16 > and portage should go directly to the original site (the
17 > SRC_URI from the ebuild) for fetching the source, since it is
18 > a waste of time try to access all the mirrors in GENTOO_MIRRORS
19 > when we know in advance that the sources are not there.
20 > There are two possible ways to implement this:
21 >
22 > - an emerge option like --skip-gentoo-mirrors
23 >
24 > or
25 >
26 > - that emerge checks in the PORTDIR if there is a package with the
27 > same name and version
28 >
29 > Pablo De Napoli
30 >
31 >
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>