On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> I know that I could run an rsync mirror just for internal use - and that
> would help a lot.  

I also recommend it from the moment you have 2 boxes, since it will provide
you with the most optimal synchronous Portage stage on both boxes.

> Running a distfiles mirror is a lot less practical.  It
> would be much better if there was a way to share '/usr/portage' across
> multiple machines.  You can't do this safely via NFS.  If two machines try
> to download the same distfile at the same time, they interfere with each
> other.  

There are several ways. I personally have /usr/portage/distfiles NFS-exported
and _read-only_. I have also set FETCH_COMMAND in /etc/make.conf to something
similar to the following:

FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/ssh -l portage niandra /usr/bin/wget -O
		\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE} \${URI}"

This will log in into niandra (my testbox) and use wget to download the
source and place it into niandra:/usr/portage/distfiles, which is NFS
exported.

I say "similar" since I'm actually using a C-program, but the above should
work.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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