mycommand=mycommand+" "+mysyncuri+"/* "+myportdir

		# this is a rewrite of the old emerge-webrsync code

		if mysyncuri[:7] == "http://" or mysyncuri[:6] == "ftp://":

			attempts = 0

			downloaded = False

			minsize=1024*1024

			while attempts < 40 and not downloaded:

				mytime = time.localtime() - (attempts*24*60*60)

				mysnapshot = time.strftime("%d%m%Y", mytime)+".tar.bz2"

				syncdir=portage.settings["PORTAGE_TMPDIR"]+"/websync"

				for m in mysyncuri.split():

					if not os.path.exists(syncdir):

						os.mkdir(syncdir)

					os.chdir(syncdir)

					myfetchcmd=portage.settings["FETCH_COMMAND"]+" "+m+"/snapshots/"+mysnapshot

					print yellow("*"), "trying to download snapshot "+mysnapshot+" from "+m

					if portage.spawn(mycmd, free=1) == 0:

						if os.path.exists(mysnapshot) and os.lstat(mysnapshot)[6] > minsize:

							print green("*"), mysnapshot+" successfully downloaded"

							downloaded = True

				attempts += 1

			if not downloaded:

				print red("*"), "could not download a complete snapshot"

				sys.exit(1)

			portage.spawn("tar xjf "+mysnapshot, free=1)

			mycommand=mycommand+" "+syncdir+"/portage/* "+myportdir

		else:

			mycommand=mycommand+" "+mysyncuri+"/* "+myportdir