Gentoo, WGET, and IPv6
by vAntMet
Well, I may as well make use of my IPv6 Tunnel, but how to get Gentoo to prefer IPv6 where it exists?
My /etc/make.conf has lines for wget, but apparently they are out of date and have invalid escaping, leading to an error:
ValueError: No escaped character
Looking at a newer make.conf.example (hidden away in /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example) I see that the way file paths are written has changed. Merging the command to prefer IPv6 and the new format gives:
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget --prefer-family=IPv6 -t 5 --passive-ftp -O \"\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}\" \"\${URI}\""
RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c --prefer-family=IPv6 -t 5 --passive-ftp -O \"\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}\" \"\${URI}\""
Which works like a charm....
tags: Gentoo - IPv6 - linux - Networking - wget