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On Friday 09 January 2009 21:32:15 Grant wrote: |
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> >> > You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with |
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> >> > exceptions for the domains you need. |
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> >> Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges? |
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> > If you wget your packages using http, then yes. You could then: |
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> > 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious |
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> > as some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources |
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> > or |
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> > 2. wget using ftp |
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> > or |
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> > 3. set up a proxy |
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> > The easiest is #2 by far |
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> Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to |
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> make it use ftp? |
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Just give GENTOO_MIRRORS a usable ftp:// url in make.conf |
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There's nothing you can do about http URLs that might be in ebuilds. Those are |
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hardcoded and emerge will tell wget to use those exact URLs |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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