Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 18 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 18 January 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>> > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync
>> >> /usr/portage/packages
>> >> as well.
>> >
>> > This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_
>> > distfiles available locall, you have to setup a mirror. AFAIK this
>> > is also documented somewhere.
>>
>> No, I have a different situation.
> 
> Have you looked at the various PORTAGE_RSYNC_* options in 'man 5 
> make.conf' ?
> 

Many thanks, that's it.

It says
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS = ...
Defaults to ...  --exclude='/packages'

So I just have to reset this option or
(hopefully) just say
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS='--include /packages'

in /etc/make.conf

Thanks again
Helmut.


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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