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On 15:41 Tue 01 Feb , Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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> The trick I've been using for... a couple years now, across various |
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> machines (no cron involved), is syncing one box that shares portage |
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> *and* my distfiles on nfs, portage R/O, distfiles R/W, then when it's |
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> done syncing and starts its own metadata update, hop across all the |
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> others and do an emerge --metadata. |
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From the emerge man page: "In versions of portage >=2.1.5 the |
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--metadata action is totally unnecessary unless the user has enabled |
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FEATURES="metadata-trasfer" in make.conf(5)." |
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Could mean that you can skip this --metadata step on your other |
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machines? |
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Greetings, |
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Nils |
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Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) |
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