On 18 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync >> >> /usr/portage/packages >> >> as well. >> > >> > This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_ >> > distfiles available locall, you have to setup a mirror. AFAIK this >> > is also documented somewhere. >> >> No, I have a different situation. > > Have you looked at the various PORTAGE_RSYNC_* options in 'man 5 > make.conf' ? >
Many thanks, that's it. It says PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS = ... Defaults to ... --exclude='/packages' So I just have to reset this option or (hopefully) just say PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS='--include /packages' in /etc/make.conf Thanks again Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list