On Tuesday 09 June 2009 20:26:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote: > > > On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > > > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an > > > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI > > > > first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from > > > > GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? > > > > > > As others have pointed out, caches, proxies et cetera are often Your > > > Friends. Thus, I wonder if there is something specific you are trying > > > to achieve here? Maybe these wise men from odd countries (like Mr > > > McKinnon's weird country on an unknown planet, with companies with > > > actual clueful management! ;) ) > > > > We're a carrier-grade Telco/ISP in a third world country that pretends to > > be first world. > > > > Techies rule here :-) > > let me guess: > South Africa?
Correct first time :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
