Bug 662

Summary:	GENTOO_MIRRORS ignored by bootstrap.sh
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Matt Beland <matt>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matt Beland 2002-02-12 00:04:09 UTC

During the initial bootstrap, Gentoo downloads the packages for various
applications (including glibc, gcc, binutils, gettext, etc.) using a "generic"
make.conf rather than the customized make.conf created by the user. As was
illustrated during the recent ibiblio outage, this means that the use of mirrors
is impossible during initial installations. While a minor annoyance for
single-system installations affected by rare outages, it could be a substantial
problem for larger installations intending to run installations from a local mirror.

Suggested fix:
Download the packages required for bootstrap.sh before switching the custom
make.conf for the generic one.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-12 17:49:38 UTC

This should now be fixed.