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On Mon, 12 May 2003 16:56:37 +0100 |
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"Stuart Herbert" <stuart@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Dear all, |
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> I originally sent the comments below to GWN as feedback on the recent call |
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> for rsync etiquette. Kurt Lieber [klieber@g.o] asked me to forward |
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> on to this list, for further discussion. |
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> Please be gentle - this is my first posting to the list ;-) |
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> Best regards, |
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> Stu |
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> -- |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Stuart Herbert [mailto:stuart@××××.org] |
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> Sent: 09 May 2003 11:24 |
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> To: 'gwn-feedback@g.o' |
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> Cc: 'stuart@××××.org' |
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> Subject: rsync etiquette follow-up |
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> Hi there, |
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> I read with great interest your article on the need for rsync etiquette. |
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> I'm sure lots of people have already written to you making the same point. |
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> I'd like to add my voice to this point. |
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> Gentoo's 'emerge' is a wonderful tool in many ways - but when it comes to a |
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> site containing multiple machines, improvements in its design could help |
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> reduce the load on your rsync servers. |
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> I run four Gentoo boxes at the moment, and they're all connected to the |
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> Internet through a single firewall configured with masquerading. If I were |
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> to rsync each machine just once a day, I wonder whether it would look like |
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> one machine had rsync'd four times from the point of view of the Gentoo |
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> rsync mirror that I use? |
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> Anyway, whenever I install a new package onto a machine, it is important to |
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> my work that *each* of these machines has the same version of the package. |
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> The machines are different x86 architectures, so building a binary package |
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> on the one machine isn't my preferred choice. The whole point of using |
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> Gentoo is that each machine runs code that is specifically optimised for the |
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> hardware. |
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Portage directory (/usr/portage) contains only new packages... |
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/var/db/pkg contains packages installed installed on machine... |
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Priit Laes <amdATttDOTee> _o) |
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http://amd-core.tk /\\ _o) _o) |
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Why don't they fix bugs in bugzilla??? _\_V _( ) _( ) |
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