On 12/19/03 Matthias Witschel wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm currently preparing to use gentoo for our company servers. To > speed up the process of portage and source download I set up a local > mirror for both and changed the corresponding settings in > /etc/make.conf of the system now to be installed. > I very soon found out that there are packages, that have to be > downloaded from special sites (ebuild setting RESTRICT="nomirror"). > > Namly this happend first to e2fsprogs-1.33. > > Well I'm pretty shure the appropriate source tarball exists on my > local mirror since I could retrieve it manually. Same goes for > man-pages-1.64 which failed next for the same reason. > > My question: Is there a way to tell emerge to ignore the "nomirror" > setting? This probably is a simple rtfm topic, but I couldn't find any > hints. Help highly appriciatet!
Starting with 2.0.50_pre1 portage has support for a /etc/portage/mirrors config file, see bug #28806. That version is still masked (as all _pre versions) because of all the new features it has a few problems that have to be solved first. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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