Great, I'll retire my emerge-sync wrapper script and see if a plain `emerge --sync' does the job (once 320555 is resolved that is).
Which transport mechanism is it that gets used? The rsync manpage mentions SSH as one possibility. If SSH is being used it might work without any extra configuration from within my particular enterprise environment. --Rabbe > Some comments: > > Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> writes: > >> This is really old. Bootstraps no longer use a subversion-based tree, >> but an rsync one. I don't know how rsync plays with a proxy setup, but >> in the worst case it would mean to resort to webrsync, which uses plain >> wget over http. > > rsync behind an HTTP proxy can be accomplished with env variable > > RSYNC_PROXY=$host:$port > > of course the proxy server need to have CONNECT method on rsync port > enabled. > > -- > XU Benda > Research Center for Neutrino Science > Tohoku University > JAPAN > > http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda > >
