On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@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 :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
