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 1ME6Pn-0004Rw-8j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:51:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28A4DE03C2; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:51:18 +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 E37E1E03C2 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so178756ewy.34 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:51:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.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:content-disposition:message-id; bh=s8eQHjcPG6j+kK6o2/M5JusUbxfZ0PtCTEA5/t3AXqQ=; b=YH0JDTkiGf7FZcDMox9Nrs9KKrvB6SdgtercfsLSOxj3DXGtZSyrAhCOvjbqcdt+Vb j8IZcpVpjcSEnoajA5rkVdixVvIbKPYe4XZ/RdNstKgWCNssLUF8FwwgN+CRogxPVeQQ rJeBu4oKwr4+4DKiKzd7LJcNiSDt8txlw53jI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=ftzb9lBQfdUUSxVNqd9L7GX+fa/HfS+t911ZefPy0AW4Ui8zj8haLSMV1JPY/VaFu7 tXHE7CLXwY3N8DC2Bw46N10nnIhf/SYK/3QbtzGJhs1rQ7f/N2Nu6XFSRuxhgpeAhY/y iRJ0M0/3MR+Qqcn57HwuWOgugfHBFg2r1LxbY= Received: by 10.210.33.3 with SMTP id g3mr528650ebg.41.1244573476707; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm74147eye.56.2009.06.09.11.51.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:51:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906091808.46470.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200906092026.30034.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906092026.30034.volkerarmin@googlemail.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 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906092049.43230.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ff7d25a0-fe2c-49d4-ab46-16efd4ea49b6 X-Archives-Hash: bdc861b119a1b83d07e91c05e8a81c2a On Tuesday 09 June 2009 20:26:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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? Correct first time :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com