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On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 23:01 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Today we added tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org (rsync4.prefix.freens.org) as |
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> rsync mirror to our rsync slaves. Since this machine is located in the |
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> US, it will most probably be a faster sync box for the USians under us. |
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> You can specifically select it by adding the following to your |
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> etc/make.conf: |
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> RSYNC="rsync://rsync.us.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" |
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> If America is further away from you, and you prefer to keep on using the |
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> European mirrors rsync2 and rsync3 (both located in Germany), you can |
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> add this instead: |
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> RSYNC="rsync://rsync.eu.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" |
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> The default rsync.prefix.freens.org will randomly point to any of the |
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> nodes. |
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> Remember that the master rsync mirror (rsync1) regenerates every 10 |
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> minutes, while the slaves sync up every 15 minutes. Hence changes made |
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> in the tree can sometimes take a few minutes to catch up. |
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Yay! |
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But I still like SVN :-) |
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It helps the development process a bit. I'm slowly moving my ebuild |
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changes to a local overlay so I can move out of the SVN tree, so using |
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rsync at that point should work fine for me. |
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Thanks Fabian! |
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Alan. |
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