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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] multiple gentoo boxes, master file fetcher & override fetch restriction
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:22:09
Message-Id: 44857.12.160.33.128.1099520511.squirrel@12.160.33.128
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] multiple gentoo boxes, master file fetcher & override fetch restriction by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch said:
2 > On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:07:03 +0100
3 > TRauMa <trauma@××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 >> 2. How can I tell portage to ignore fetch restricitions? If I
6 >> encounter one, I manually pull in the file as portage tells me to, but
7 >> I'm not keen on pulling it on every client, too. So it would be
8 >> perfect if I could tell the clients to just try and fetch the
9 >> restricted files from the local mirror.
10 >
11 > You can't. It wouldn't be completely impossible to add support for this,
12 > but it would need a nontrivial amount of work and make the code even
13 > more complicated (read the 'fetch' function in portage.py and you'll
14 > understand ;).
15
16 Not neccesarily a good idea, but an idea nonetheless, is to NFS mount
17 /usr/portage/distfiles/ as a share that contains pre-fetched distribution
18 files.
19
20 DS

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