I think it may be useful for Gentoo to have more words in official doc concerning configuring of local portage/packages server. In particular, Gentoo-user mailing list and googling didn't help me to resolve the problem of "Unsupported scheme" problem: for home LAN I have added these lines to rsyncd.conf: [gentoo-packages] path = /x/portage/distfiles comment = Anli Linux Packages mirror Client side get "Unsupported scheme" while fetching (and all works fine when client sync-ing with the same rsync server). P.S. Mailing list subject is "home gentoo server/mirror" Thanks! Andrew
You shouldn't use RSYNC for distfiles fetching. You can do it, but you need to redefine the FETCHCOMMAND as well to use rsync - it currently uses wget. RSYNC is best used for the Portage tree only. More information on creating a local rsync mirror is available at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml
