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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:07:03PM +0100 or thereabouts, TRauMa wrote: |
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> 1. is it save to generate the metadata on the server and then just pull |
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> it in on the clients? I noticed that emerge does the quarterly updates |
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> on first run after a sync but doesn't build metadata again (on the |
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> clients). I'm fine with that, as on some of the slower machines this |
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> lasts ages, but is it save? All the machines are "x86". |
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I'm not 100% sure on this, but is there any harm in simply creating a local |
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rsync repository and point your servers at that? |
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app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror makes this very easy for you. |
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> 2. How can I tell portage to ignore fetch restricitions? If I encounter |
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> one, I manually pull in the file as portage tells me to, but I'm not |
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> keen on pulling it on every client, too. So it would be perfect if I |
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> could tell the clients to just try and fetch the restricted files from |
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> the local mirror. |
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Yes, use the local mirror facility provided by /etc/portage/mirrors. 'man |
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portage' will give you more information on the syntax. (search for |
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"mirrors") |
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--kurt |
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