EMIRRORDIST

Section: Portage (1)
Updated: Dec 2015
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NAME

emirrordist - a fetch tool for mirroring of package distfiles  

SYNOPSIS

emirrordist [options] <action>  

ACTIONS

-h, --help
Show a help message and exit.
--version
Display portage version and exit.
--mirror
Mirror distfiles for the selected repository.
 

OPTIONS

--dry-run
Perform a trial run with no changes made (typically combined with -v or -vv).
-v, --verbose
Display extra information on stderr (multiple occurences increase verbosity).
--ignore-default-opts
Do not use the EMIRRORDIST_DEFAULT_OPTS environment variable.
--distfiles=DIR
Distfiles directory to use (required).
-j JOBS, --jobs=JOBS
Number of concurrent jobs to run.
-l LOAD, --load-average=LOAD
Load average limit for spawning of new concurrent jobs.
--tries=TRIES
Maximum number of tries per file, 0 means unlimited (default is 10).
--repo=REPO
Name of repo to operate on.
--config-root=DIR
Location of portage config files.
--repositories-configuration=REPOSITORIES_CONFIGURATION
Override configuration of repositories. The argument of this option has the same format as repos.conf (see portage(5)).
--strict-manifests=<y|n>
Manually override "strict" FEATURES setting.
--failure-log=FILE
Log file for fetch failures, with tab-delimited output, for reporting purposes. Opened in append mode.
--success-log=FILE
Log file for fetch successes, with tab-delimited output, for reporting purposes. Opened in append mode.
--scheduled-deletion-log=FILE
Log file for scheduled deletions, with tab-delimited output, for reporting purposes. Overwritten with each run.
--delete
Enable deletion of unused distfiles.
--deletion-db=FILE
Database file used to track lifetime of files scheduled for delayed deletion.
--deletion-delay=SECONDS
Delay time for deletion of unused distfiles, measured in seconds.
--temp-dir=DIR
Temporary directory for downloads.
--mirror-overrides=FILE
File holding a list of mirror overrides.
--mirror-skip=MIRROR_SKIP
Comma delimited list of mirror targets to skip when fetching.
--restrict-mirror-exemptions=RESTRICT_MIRROR_EXEMPTIONS
Comma delimited list of mirror targets for which to ignore RESTRICT="mirror" (see ebuild(5)).
--verify-existing-digest
Use digest as a verification of whether existing distfiles are valid.
--distfiles-local=DIR
The distfiles-local directory to use.
--distfiles-db=FILE
Database file used to track which ebuilds a distfile belongs to.
--recycle-dir=DIR
Directory for extended retention of files that are removed from distdir with the --delete option. These files may be be recycled if they are needed again, instead of downloading them again.
--recycle-db=FILE
Database file used to track lifetime of files in recycle dir.
--recycle-deletion-delay=SECONDS
Delay time for deletion of unused files from recycle dir, measured in seconds (defaults to the equivalent of 60 days).
--fetch-log-dir=DIR
Directory for individual fetch logs.
--whitelist-from=FILE
Specifies a file containing a list of files to whitelist, one per line, # prefixed lines ignored. Use this option multiple times in order to specify multiple whitelists.
 

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via https://bugs.gentoo.org/  

THANKS

Special thanks to Brian Harring, author of the mirror-dist program from which emirrordist is derived.  

AUTHORS

Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@apache.org>
 

FILES

/etc/portage/make.conf
Contains variables.
 

SEE ALSO

ebuild(5), egencache(1), make.conf(5), portage(5)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
ACTIONS
OPTIONS
REPORTING BUGS
THANKS
AUTHORS
FILES
SEE ALSO