On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:16:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
> emerge and SRC_URI comes last.  I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
> first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from
> GENTOO_MIRRORS.  Doable?

You can use RESTRICT=nomirror to prevent portage trying the mirrors at
all. I don't know of a way of reversing the order in which things are
tried.


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Neil Bothwick

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