emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Last Sync: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2 -m80387 -mhard-float" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2 -m80387 -mhard-float" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fix-packages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo/ rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-znow" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j1 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aiglx alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cups dbus dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr elibc_glibc encode esd firefox ftp gif glibc-omitfp gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 java javascript jpeg kernel_linux ldap libg++ linguas_en mad mikmod mp3 mpeg mpeg2 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nv vorbis wxGTK xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Actually the filetransfer for the ebuilds is done by wget. The filetransfer should also be possible with rsync.
Sure, every upstream runs public rsync server... :P Otherwise, feel free to set FETCHCOMMAND as you wish in make.conf