Gentoo "emerge sync" through restrictive firewall

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I believe there is a websync available.  You might ask on the Gentoo 
user mailing list - or search it's archives.



Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Here's one for the Gentoo gurus.
> 
> Trying to install my first Gentoo install, using Stage3 and installing 
> through an existing SuSE 9.0 install.
> I have downloaded and expanded the .tar.bz2 image onto it's own 
> partition.  But emerging the kernel has become and issue.
> The instructions say to chroot to the partition mount point, "source 
> /etc/profile", and then "emerge sync" .
> Unfortunately the "emerge sync" causes an rsync error, since rsync is 
> not allowed through our firewall.  And "emerge gentoo-dev-sources" fails 
> as well.
> 
> Any other ways to do this?  The documentation I have been searching does 
> not show any other way.
> 
> Thanks!
> Matt
>