I wrote a quick patch to implement user-override-able mirror urls for
bootstrap-prefix.sh. It allows you to do this:
GNU_URL=ftp://some.mirror.tld/gnu ./bootstrap-prefix.sh
patch attached.
-jason pepas
--- bootstrap-prefix.sh.orig 2007-05-18 18:54:18.000000000 -0500
+++ bootstrap-prefix.sh 2007-05-18 18:54:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -538,9 +538,9 @@
DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=${ROOT}/var/tmp
PORTAGE_URL="http://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/distfiles"
-GNU_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu"
+GNU_URL=${GNU_URL:="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu"}
GCC_APPLE_URL="http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other"
-GENTOO_URL="http://gentoo.osuosl.org"
+GENTOO_URL=${GENTOO_URL:="http://gentoo.osuosl.org"}
export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS MAKE