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On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:21:51 -0700 (MST) |
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"Sancho2k.net Lists" <lists@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Marius Mauch said: |
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> > On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:07:03 +0100 |
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> > TRauMa <trauma@××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> >> 2. How can I tell portage to ignore fetch restricitions? If I |
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> >> encounter one, I manually pull in the file as portage tells me to, but |
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> >> I'm not keen on pulling it on every client, too. So it would be |
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> >> perfect if I could tell the clients to just try and fetch the |
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> >> restricted files from the local mirror. |
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> > You can't. It wouldn't be completely impossible to add support for this, |
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> > but it would need a nontrivial amount of work and make the code even |
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> > more complicated (read the 'fetch' function in portage.py and you'll |
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> > understand ;). |
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> Not neccesarily a good idea, but an idea nonetheless, is to NFS mount |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles/ as a share that contains pre-fetched distribution |
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> files. |
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I have got one server with ten boxed. The serveur rsync gentoo mirror and the boxes nfs mount /usr/portage ro. As I emerge packages first on the serveur I rarely have to fetch them individually on the server for the boxes. Up to now it works perfectly well and its very simple to set up. |
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Patrick Benoit |
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