From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24667 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2004 13:54:42 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Mar 2004 13:54:42 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B1Qe2-00061S-Af for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:54:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 20198 invoked by uid 50004); 11 Mar 2004 13:54:41 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6024 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2004 13:54:41 +0000 From: Scott Taylor To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20040311134150.34706.qmail@web41505.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040311134150.34706.qmail@web41505.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: <1079013278.17990.4.camel@Star.BerthoudWireless.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:54:39 -0700 Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage X-Archives-Salt: b37f5770-6fb9-4952-974b-01ce7c45e6ef X-Archives-Hash: 948e7caae168b3a81b7525bc209144ba RESTRICT="nomirror" can be added to your ebuild to do just that. however, i would find use for a make.conf option where i could list mirrors (or nfs mounts, etc) that would always be checked before gentoo mirrors, sourceforge mirrors, ignoring the "nomirror" option... On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 06:41, Pablo De Napoli wrote: > Hi, > > I want to suggest a little inprovement to portage: suppose that I've > created my own ebuild for a package in PORTDIR_OVERLAY > and suppose that no ebuild for this package is included in the > Gentoo portage (in PORTDIR) > Then for sure, the sources are not available in the Gentoo mirrors > and portage should go directly to the original site (the > SRC_URI from the ebuild) for fetching the source, since it is > a waste of time try to access all the mirrors in GENTOO_MIRRORS > when we know in advance that the sources are not there. > There are two possible ways to implement this: > > - an emerge option like --skip-gentoo-mirrors > > or > > - that emerge checks in the PORTDIR if there is a package with the > same name and version > > Pablo De Napoli > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster > http://search.yahoo.com > > -- > gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- Scott Taylor - If you look like your driver's license photo -- see a doctor. If you look like your passport photo -- it's too late for a doctor. -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list