Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: TRauMa <trauma@××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] multiple gentoo boxes, master file fetcher & override fetch restriction
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:16:30
Message-Id: 418CEABF.70909@digital-trauma.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] multiple gentoo boxes, master file fetcher & override fetch restriction by Michiel de Bruijne
1 Michiel de Bruijne wrote:
2
3 >On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:07, TRauMa wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Hi there,
7 >>
8 >>I admin multiple gentoo boxes and built a "poor man gentoo mirror
9 >>structure" the following way: one box, my desktop, where I install the
10 >>latest and greatest software, serves its distfiles via ftp and all the
11 >>other boxes have it in their mirror list. They occasionaly have to d/l
12 >>something from the great inet themselves but I can live with that, I
13 >>just want to be nice to the gentoo mirrors, not set one up myself. I
14 >>decided against an NFS-mounted distfiles dir b/c I didn't want two boxes
15 >>downloading the same file to conflict.
16 >>
17 >>
18 >
19 >Seems you don't know http-replicator;
20 >
21 >http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=173226
22 >
23 >http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50872
24 >
25 >
26 Sweet. No, didn't know that. After looking into proxies and only finding
27 wacky betas and squid (which kind of pseudoencrypts its files on disk
28 ;-)) I gave up the proxie topic. But that was a year ago. Thanks for the
29 link.
30
31 Greets
32 T.