n952...@web.de wrote:
> Thank you for the explanation. I wonder what the local mirror page means
> when it talks about saving bandwidth. What *does* it serve if not the
> distfiles? And when /etc/portage/repos.conf points to my local server, why
> would portage disregard that?
>
> The rsync server on the mirror host points to the gentoo portage installation
> on that local mirror host. How can any metadata there know about anything
> that's not already resolved there?
>
> At the very least, I suspect that that local mirror page is wrong and rather
> refers to something that *could* be implemented (without extra packages being
> installed, just by configuration), but isn't yet.
>
>
I used to use this package that I think is what you want, if I
understand you correctly.
root@fireball / # eix net-proxy/http-replicator
[I] net-proxy/http-replicator
Available versions: 3.0-r8 4.0_alpha2-r7^t{tbz2}
{PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"}
Installed versions: 4.0_alpha2-r7^t{tbz2}(04:52:11 AM
04/01/2019)(PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7")
Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/http-replicator
Description: Proxy cache for Gentoo packages
root@fireball / #
Back when I had a couple or more systems running, I used that to manage
the downloads of distfiles. Of course, it is installed on one machine
and that machine does the downloading, last I used it anyway. Between
this package and being able to sync others from my main rig, it saved a
good bit of bandwidth and time in my old dial-up days.
If I misread what you ware trying to do, ignore me. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
