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On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:50:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!: |
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>On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote: |
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>> >> Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my |
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>> >> ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: |
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>> >Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles instead of |
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>> >using bind mounts? |
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>> Because binding the directory to /home/ftp/pub makes the distfiles |
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>> available to the rest of one's network via anonymous ftp. I do the |
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>> same thing here, without the "pub" subdirectory, and |
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>> exclude /home/ftp/ from my backups. |
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>So the distfiles are actually in /usr/portage/distfiles? |
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Correct. |
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>I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies |
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>of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is |
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>shared across all machines on the network and DISTDIR is set |
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>to /mnt/portage/distfiles in each make.conf. |
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I used to do that, but it meant my NFS server had to be running to |
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perform any software maintenance on any box, so it became a single point |
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of failure. The FTP approach allows each box to be self-reliant. |
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>Sharing /mnt/portage like this means I can also share my overlay across |
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>the network at /mnt/portage/local. |
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My boxes have different stuff in their overlays, and one uses no |
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overlay packages at all. Sharing overlays doesn't make much sense for |
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my set-up. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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