On Tuesday 04 July 2006 14:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 21:00, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > If you have an ebuild with a non-standard pkg_nofetch, please ensure
> > that you use $SRC_URI instead of $A!
> >
> > This is because if you have FEATURES=mirror or FEATURES=cvs, attempts to
> > download all of the source files for digesting or verification will hit
> > pkg_nofetch and $A is only the subset of $SRC_URI, causing misleading
> > messages to be displayed about what needs to be downloaded still.
>
> whats the problem then ?

sorry, i just re-read your message ... perhaps a better fix would be to not 
force people to download all the packages when something has fetch 
restrictions ?
-mike

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