You know about the local mirror type in /etc/portage/mirrors right? Well, that file could probably be used by you in many ways. Check it out.
--Iggy Carlos Silva wrote: >Hi guys, >since the change of the eclass kernel-2 to make it use the subversion >kernel patches that we no longer keep the kernel sources on our mirrors >and they are downloaded from the kernel.org mirrors. What happends is >that alot of people, including me, have traffic limits imposed by the >IPS's. In my case, i have 4GB international traffic limit. In the most >cases, the PT kernel.org mirror isn't "selected" as the mirror to >download the kernel when we try to download a new kernel version so i >end up making international traffic, thing that didn't happend when we >had the sources on the mirrors. Besides that, in the case the of PT >kernel.org mirror, it is very slow compared to some good distfiles >mirrors we have here. >So what i want to know is what you guys think if we get the kernel >sources back in the mirrors. > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
