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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> posted pan.2008.03.25.11.05.06@×××.net, |
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excerpted below, on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:05:07 +0000: |
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> You have multiple machines. Are you making use of binary packages? |
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> Assuming you use portage, FEATURES=buildpkg on your first upgraded |
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> machine, with all machines set to use the same PKGDIR and using emerge |
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> --usepkgonly (-K) on everything but the first one (at least where USE |
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> flags are the same, and assuming compatible machine and instruction |
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> types) should be a real boon to you. |
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This one's probably worth pointing out by itself. With multiple |
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machines, particularly all those myth client machines likely configured |
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virtually identically, you really /are/ wasting time if you are |
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rebuilding from source for each one. That's what Features=buildpkg, the |
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PKGDIR var, and --usepkgonly are for, after all. =8^) (I assume the |
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other-than-portage package managers have similar binary package features, |
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but wouldn't know the settings or how to invoke them.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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