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Hi all, |
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I'm a CS student from Poland interested in taking part in GSoC 2010. |
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I've been using Gentoo for about 5 years. I've expanded my home network |
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recently and found some difficulties with keeping things tidy on 5 |
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different boxes with Gentoo. And that's where my idea for this year's |
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GSoC has come from. |
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Most of packages I install are common to all of my machines and |
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therefore I would be happy to download them only once. It would save |
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bandwidth and time for me and others. Trying to solve this issue with |
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some ready software I've found two or three solutions, but none of them |
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satisfying. Starting with the simplest solution, I could just emerge |
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package on one machine and then copy sources to the others, but it's at |
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least a little bit stupid. Being smarter, I could export |
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/usr/portage/distfiles to other machines through NFS, but as far as I |
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know something about NFS it could raise some synchronization errors if |
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tried to merge the same packages on more than one machine |
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simultaneously. Finally, the designated solution: I could just install a |
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mirror on one of my local machines and use in within my network (just |
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like I've done it with rsyncing portage tree), but... isn't it to |
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expensive? It would be fine if I had a big network with plenty of |
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storage, but (keeping in mind my small home network) spending about |
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200GB (that number I've found somewhere) on accumulating all packages |
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doesn't seem to me a good idea. It's quite substantial amount of disk |
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space for me. |
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I feel like there was lack of solution for people like me and I bet |
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there are more such users who have about 5 to 15 machines under their |
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control. My idea is to develop kind of mirror which would act just like |
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the real "big" mirror, but not keep all of packages. Instead of that it |
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would download a package when it's needed for the first time and make |
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somehow wait machine which is asking for it (and others which will ask |
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for it in time before it's fully downloaded). Of course it's only a |
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draft, but I just wanted you to feel my idea. |
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I wait for your comments and responses. I realize that I may be terribly |
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wrong and there is already such thing which I need, but I have spent |
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some time on seeking and haven't found it. In such case I'm sorry for |
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wasting your time and... please let me know about it :) . |
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Best wishes, Lukasz Zubkowicz |
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http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~lz248258 |
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