> 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 -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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