Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote:
> On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> 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?
>
> As others have pointed out, caches, proxies et cetera are often Your
> Friends. Thus, I wonder if there is something specific you are trying
> to achieve here? Maybe these wise men from odd countries (like Mr
> McKinnon's weird country on an unknown planet, with companies with
> actual clueful management! ;) )

We're a carrier-grade Telco/ISP in a third world country that pretends to be 
first world.

Techies rule here :-)



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