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On 7/27/05, Justin Patrin <papercrane@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote: |
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> > Hello. |
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> > I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want |
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> > to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a "low end" box and since |
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> > my main system is not "low end" :), I'd like to compile as much as |
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> > possible on the "big" server and then later copy (or whatever) the |
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> > compiled packages over to the slower system. |
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> > Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always. |
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> > What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's |
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> > already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would |
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> > of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good |
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> > documentation. |
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> Remember that you can always set up distcc. This way your laptop does |
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> its normal compiles and you can distribute lots of the compiling load |
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> to the big server. |
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I've had good luck using distcc to speed up my p3 450's builds.. until |
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it fried that is... |
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However, you might be better off doing a hybrid of the two, especially |
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when it comes to compiling big packages, since there are some that |
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explicitly disable using distcc. |
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You might want to build the packages exclusively on your more powerful |
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computer for that one. Whichever you choose there is plenty of |
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documentation for either. |
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