Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:50:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> There's an env var, something like ESVN_SERVER, that you can set
> to "offline", and if the ebuild inherits the svn eclass, it won't try
> to checkout new sources.

Thanks Alan. The variable is ESVN_OFFLINE, which you set to anything
non-empty to skip the updates. I'd hoped portage was intelligent enough
to have a way to use existing svn sources. It is, it's just a user not
intelligent enough to find it :(

Thanks again!


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Neil Bothwick

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