Bug 161975

Summary:	GENTOO_MIRRORS support for mounted filesystem mirrors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	147007
Attachments:	/usr/local/sbin/emerge-fetch

Description Triffid Hunter 2007-01-14 01:09:58 UTC

I nfs-mount /usr/portage (ro) and /usr/portage/distfiles (rw) from my storage server on all my machines.
I wrote an emerge-fetch script which checks /etc/portage/old/ (a symlink) before trying mirrors (moving if permitted, copying if not), so I can clean up unused downloads by moving everything to distfiles/old, then doing emerge -ef world on all my boxes.

I'm sure others could find numerous uses for a filesystem-based mirror uri.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Triffid Hunter 2007-01-14 01:11:56 UTC

Created attachment 106882 [details]
/usr/local/sbin/emerge-fetch

my emerge-fetch script if anyone wants it

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-14 01:21:57 UTC

Dunno what you are after, but GENTOO_MIRRORS="/usr/portage/distfiles" works just fine...

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-01-14 19:46:50 UTC

We need to document the filesystem mirrors functionality...

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-01-14 20:07:33 UTC

I've added a note to make.conf.5 in svn r5644.

Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-01-14 23:36:01 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.2.