Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:51:19
Message-Id: 200906092049.43230.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Tuesday 09 June 2009 20:26:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote:
4 > > > On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
5 > > > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
6 > > > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
7 > > > > first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from
8 > > > > GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable?
9 > > >
10 > > > As others have pointed out, caches, proxies et cetera are often Your
11 > > > Friends. Thus, I wonder if there is something specific you are trying
12 > > > to achieve here? Maybe these wise men from odd countries (like Mr
13 > > > McKinnon's weird country on an unknown planet, with companies with
14 > > > actual clueful management! ;) )
15 > >
16 > > We're a carrier-grade Telco/ISP in a third world country that pretends to
17 > > be first world.
18 > >
19 > > Techies rule here :-)
20 >
21 > let me guess:
22 > South Africa?
23
24 Correct first time :-)
25
26 --
27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>