[gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage

[gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage

[Pablo De Napoli]

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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
 

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage

[Scott Taylor]

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
>  
> 
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] suggesting an improvement to portage

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Thursday 11 March 2004 14:54, Scott Taylor wrote:
> 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...

Such a list allready exists in the /etc/portage/mirrors file (man 5 portage). 
However an option to skip the mirrors from the command line might be an 
option, but I find that the time costs are only minimal in any case.

Paul

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