On Friday 09 January 2009 21:32:15 Grant wrote: > >> > You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with > >> > exceptions for the domains you need. > >> > >> Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges? > > > > If you wget your packages using http, then yes. You could then: > > > > 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious > > as some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources > > > > or > > > > 2. wget using ftp > > > > or > > > > 3. set up a proxy > > > > The easiest is #2 by far > > Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to > make it use ftp?
Just give GENTOO_MIRRORS a usable ftp:// url in make.conf There's nothing you can do about http URLs that might be in ebuilds. Those are hardcoded and emerge will tell wget to use those exact URLs -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
