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From: Marius Mauch <genone@emu.gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Feature request
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:20:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040102202021.GA23383@emu.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AbhRH-0004kq-Lq@smtp.gentoo.org>

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:34:57AM -0500, Allen Parker wrote:
> I think it'd be a good idea for portage-ng to include better localization
> features (specifically relating to mirrors). I've recently been plagued with
> RESTRICT="nomirror" being set in recent mysql 4.0.x ebuilds causing my
> filefetching operations to take considerable amounts of time when they
> should actually be the fastest. (my example is 30kb/s from argentina instead
> of the regular 4Mb/s from gentoo.mirrors.pair.com)

portage-2.0.50 already has support several new files in /etc/portage, including a file to set local mirrors to override the nomirror restriction. There is no documentation for them yet though, search bugs.gentoo.org for "thirdpartymirrors" for a detailed explanation.

Marius

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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1AbhRH-0004kq-Lq@smtp.gentoo.org>
2004-01-02 20:20 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
     [not found] <E1AbhRM-0007Ja-C9@smtp.gentoo.org>
2004-01-01 19:54 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] Feature request Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-01 20:14   ` Scott Taylor
2004-01-01 20:24     ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-01 20:43       ` Scott Taylor
2004-01-01 21:19         ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-01 21:43           ` Scott Taylor
2004-01-02  5:08     ` Brian
2003-12-31 14:34 Allen Parker

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