From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30495 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 20:20:24 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 20:20:24 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AcVmQ-0000nT-Sd for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:20:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 28355 invoked by uid 50004); 2 Jan 2004 20:20:22 +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 6289 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 20:20:21 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:20:21 +0000 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040102202021.GA23383@emu.gentoo.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Marius Mauch Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Feature request X-Archives-Salt: ebfb6a37-2ab8-4ca8-9812-36d4f9ab7a97 X-Archives-Hash: 9204015daabf8e5c4fee34aab60096bc 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 -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list