Is there any way I can configure (pass arguments to) emerge's "wget" (used for fetching) to limit it's rate to a certain amount
of KB/s?

I don't want to make a global/system-wide change, just for portage.

I did find a way to limit the bandwidth while syncing. All I had to do was to put this on my /etc/make.conf:

PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--partial --progress --delete-after --human-readable --bwlimit=50"

(for instance).

I do know there is parameter for wget, which is "--limitrate". Any way I could set this inside portage?

Regards,

Saffi

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The answer to supplying custom arguments to portage's download command is exactly where it should be - in a man page.


equery files portage


will list them, it's in section 5


On 06 Jan 2010 8:38 PM, "Ricardo Saffi Marques" <saffi@las.ic.unicamp.br> wrote:

Is there any way I can configure (pass arguments to) emerge's "wget" (used for fetching) to limit it's rate to a certain amount


of KB/s?



I don't want to make a global/system-wide change, just for portage.



I did find a way to limit the bandwidth while syncing. All I had to do was to put this on my /etc/make.conf:



PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--partial --progress --delete-after --human-readable --bwlimit=50"



(for instance).



I do know there is parameter for wget, which is "--limitrate". Any way I could set this inside portage?



Regards,



Saffi



--

Ricardo Saffi Marques

http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/

================================================== ====

Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS

Institute of Computing - IC

P.O. Box: 6176

University of Campinas - UNICAMP

13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil

================================================== ====

Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote:

I do know there is parameter for wget, which is "--limitrate". Any way I could set this inside portage?


it is in the make.conf manpage.
try this website
<http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users#Bandwidth_Limiting>