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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:53:13
Message-Id: tkrat.81a09470a151b54f@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages? by Alan McKinnon
1 On 18 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Friday 18 January 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
4 >> > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch:
5 >> >> Hi,
6 >> >>
7 >> >> I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync
8 >> >> /usr/portage/packages
9 >> >> as well.
10 >> >
11 >> > This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_
12 >> > distfiles available locall, you have to setup a mirror. AFAIK this
13 >> > is also documented somewhere.
14 >>
15 >> No, I have a different situation.
16 >
17 > Have you looked at the various PORTAGE_RSYNC_* options in 'man 5
18 > make.conf' ?
19 >
20
21 Many thanks, that's it.
22
23 It says
24 PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS = ...
25 Defaults to ... --exclude='/packages'
26
27 So I just have to reset this option or
28 (hopefully) just say
29 PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS='--include /packages'
30
31 in /etc/make.conf
32
33 Thanks again
34 Helmut.
35
36
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38 Helmut Jarausch
39
40 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
41 RWTH - Aachen University
42 D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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