Robert Cole wrote: > I setup simular and do rsync ok but the files still end up being pulled > off an http mirror.
There are two separate mechanisms, rsync mirrors for /usr/portage and http mirrors for distfiles and other stuff. Rsync is really good for grabbing a whole tree, while they seem to have gone with http for grabbing individual files when you choose to emerge a particular ebuild. It would appear (I haven't done this yet) that if you enable an http daemon on your primary Gentoo machine and point its docroot at /usr/portage, then prefix that to GENTOO_MIRRORS on your other machines, it should look for distfiles/tarballname there first and fall back to the official mirrors listed after it if you don't have that particular tarball locally yet. The directory structure of the http servers isn't *quite* the same as the /usr/portage tree (rant,rant), but this might be a usable approximation. -- Anthony de Boer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
