provide a way to allow emerge to download individual grp packages, similar to apt-get functionality. if the mirrors could host the individual grp packages in addition to the grp iso's it would help those who don't want to download the entire iso at once before installing packages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This functionality is already in portage. we just need to document it.
See comment #1, additionally I quote /etc/make.conf.example: # Portage uses PORTAGE_BINHOST to specify mirrors for prebuilt-binary packages. # The list is a single extry specifying the full address of the directory # serving the tbz2's for your system. Running emerge with either '--getbinpkg' # or '--getbinpkgonly' will cause portage to retrieve the metadata from all # packages in the directory specified, and use that data to determine what will # be downloaded and merged. '-g' or '-gK' are the recommend parameters. Please # consult the man pages and 'emerge --help' for more information. #PORTAGE_BINHOST="ftp://login:pass@grp.mirror.site/pub/grp/i686/athlon-xp/" #PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://grp.mirror.site/gentoo/grp/1.4/i686/athlon-xp/"
I apologise for this bugspam, but I wish to close this product, so I need to move all the bugs.
