> 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.

You are right, it works this way. And it does so beautifully. It really saves 
me a lot of time on my home network.

Paul

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