In section 10 (before code listing 18) it would be useful to indicate how to use a proxy if this is required. Perhaps something along the lines of: -- If your Internet access is going through a proxy server exporting the environement variable http_proxy will help. The format is http_proxy=http:// [<user>:<pass>@]<proxyname>:<port>. E.g. # export http_proxy=http://john:secret@proxy.name.here:3128 --
Proxy info should be set in /etc/make.conf. I've modifed the standard make.conf, added a note to the build docs, and modified bootstrap.sh so that the proxy values in /etc/make.conf actually get used for the bootstrap. At the moment the only visible change will be bootstrap.sh. The site needs to be updated for the doc change to be seen, and /etc/make.conf will be updated with the next version of portage.
Trying to clean out the docs-depricated so that I can close the catergory ...
