repository_root
repository_root
sets the global root URL that
will be used when downloading files and packages using fetch
(3)
and friends.
Recognised URLs must begin with "http://" (HTTP), "https://" (HTTPS), "ftp://" (FTP), ":pserver:" (CVS via pserver) or ":ext:" (CVS via SSH).
The global repository root can be overridden by all functions that
downloads files and packages by giving the
root
=url option to those
functions.