I have a similar problem at work, all our gentoo systems there use emerge-websync, which just downloads it though http. Works very well. Should be easier than having to manually fiddle with the downloads. Hope that helps.
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:30:55 -0500, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is running emerge --sync the same result as downloading a poartage > snapshot and unpacking it into the /usr/portage directory? If so, do I > have to clear the directory (except maybe for the distfiles directory) > first? > > Reason: We have a very strange proxy environment here. Essentially > there is a Microsoft proxy, which then passes to an upstream proxy > where a antivirus gateway sits, and then on to the hardware firewall, > and then out. This structure causes emerge --sync to fail, even though > I can launch a browser and download a portage snapshot with no > problem. So I thought I'd like to do my daily or weekly sync manually, > if that will work. > -- > Mark > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
