emerge from a different source

Grapes · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 43

I'm fairly new to gentoo ( and linux for that matter ) , but can i some how change the web source that i emerge from. I'm on a university lan and an restricted to how much i can download per day, but my school's lug has gentoo packages. It would be faster and easier if I could pull stuff from their web site. Can anyone help me?

PT_LAmb · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 4:48 am Post subject:

Hi,

Get the url where the distfiles directory is...

e.g. if the URL of the distfiles was: http://www.somesite.com/pub/gentoo/distfiles/
the correct URL would be: http://www.somesite.com/pub/gentoo/

Then add the following line to the /etc/make.conf file:]:

Grapes · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 43

I don't see "GENTOO_MIRRORS . . . " in the file. I assume you add it? And if so, I assume it doesn't matter where you put it?

PT_LAmb · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 5:05 am Post subject:

exactly...

godd luck,
Ricardo Cordeiro

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Grapes · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 43

thanks alot