From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25248 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2004 13:41:53 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Mar 2004 13:41:53 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B1QRd-0005H6-4e for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:41:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 8711 invoked by uid 50004); 11 Mar 2004 13:41:51 +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 26242 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2004 13:41:50 +0000 Message-ID: <20040311134150.34706.qmail@web41505.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:41:50 -0800 (PST) From: Pablo De Napoli To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage X-Archives-Salt: 873810a7-50ac-4953-bffb-e56de1ae4ffe X-Archives-Hash: d2cb8d909fd704ad1d7b4c2ca45752da 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 you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list