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On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:31 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> Follow-up question to the backup thingy. |
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> Is there an easy way to share Portage's database between multiple |
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> virtual machines? |
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> Optimally, I would emerge --sync and the results would land in a |
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> filesystem that I'd share between VMs, so I don't have to do emerge |
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> --sync in each and all of them. The filesystem could perhaps be |
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> readonly to the virtual machines, except for the one doing the --sync |
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> of course. |
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> (Currently, I run emerge --sync in all virtual machines.) |
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I current use NFS to share my portage tree at home. All you need is to |
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store the portage tree on one machine. I would suggest the actual |
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machine the virtual machines run on, rather than the virtual machines |
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themselves, but you really can put them anywhere. You want the tree to |
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be writable, too, so that you can sync from any machine and also because |
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of distfiles. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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