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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Stroller wrote:
> 
> On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, 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?
> 
> This is undesirable behaviour - te mirrors exist because SRC_URI may 
> often have limited bandwidth.

Understandable, but my problem lies in "ebuild digest" of my own ebuilds 
and ebuilds of third-party overlays.  Along the URLs tried by portage is 
one that seems to need over a minute to reply with "401 not found". 
This is highly annoying.  I would want to try SRC_URI in those cases first.

Of course that doesn't mean SRC_URI should be tried by default first.  I 
never suggested that and look what happened to this thread :P