From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ME62M-0000Zj-QR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:27:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E86EE03E1; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC58FE03E1 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so162537ewy.34 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:27:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=MQAg/1AbGJX1Z2ngE5hgfecY037Zod73PFa0YjFk/OM=; b=UrDxOtxXMzHCfXKJLalhGE0qJ/soX2CtscAhXu0X0rPTwtwwZF07DlofoCx0M0wRsm SjgoerWJz7irBepWrJewT1vFSfbglr76+DpOghO7moUWYQifP5l+7MshE2Wz4ASTjrw9 xYbiNTCHgvNtnidXa7BwST5/M8R9ZpMYVi3Zk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=aQfbI2QERM8E53FHyIj2FvxA9yeSThksWT5D8wyPTBGz0sYfviQScFhFPp4LL0iBVD I4sS19rG34d1QhUK3MpzZu/SjZAyfJ7iV7iyxaWUiuyRV4vwx0kJe7teTXV1wyguuhfF uA6G0IG8uH3CEFI2dQFp4H4XUQfGtRRh/fVOc= Received: by 10.210.131.6 with SMTP id e6mr520103ebd.19.1244572024332; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm8609544ewy.32.2009.06.09.11.27.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:27:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:26:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.4r4; KDE/4.2.90; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906091808.46470.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906091808.46470.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906092026.30034.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 92c2dbf1-aa0c-40fb-a9ee-db498721caf3 X-Archives-Hash: 9d942d29e296cad99ff76a10c2d50588 On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote: > > On 6/9/09, 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? > > > > 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 :-) let me guess: South Africa?