[gentoo-user] fetching patches on demand

[gentoo-user] fetching patches on demand

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

I'd reall like to save traffic and disk space by not syncing 
patches with "emerge --sync" and let them be fetched on demand
instead. Is this supported yet ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] fetching patches on demand

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> I'd reall like to save traffic and disk space by not syncing
> patches with "emerge --sync" and let them be fetched on demand
> instead. Is this supported yet ?

Nope, that it not supported.

What is supported, however, is excluding parts of the tree (be it single 
directories, packages or entire categories). Although slightly outdated [1] 
should be able to provide some useful info.

With portage 2.1I believe this:

RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM="/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"

should be replaced by this:

PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"

If anyone can confirm that then please add that to the wiki [1].

[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync

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