On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:29, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:19:40PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Side note: if the packages in question are fetch restricted, you're > > screwed, and will not be able to add them to the tree. > > Actually, there is a solution for this, and it's reasonable logical. > Don't use the same name that upstream does for the files. > > Simply tell the user to download X and place it in $DISTDIR renaming it > to X-foo-bar, where's you've chosen X-foo-bar to avoid conflicts.
Is there any valid reason that we can't have portage do this automatically. This particular way is very user-un-friendly. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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