Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

[Aniruddha]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 09:09 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I've got three PCs.  I want to only have to have one run emerge --sync,
> but for the box running the emerge --sync to be able to rsync the tree
> to the other two boxes automatically (like in the middle of the night
> while I'm asleep).  Is there a way to do this?  The problem with my
> theories on how to do this fall apart when I get to the part where a
> password has to be entered for rsync/scp.  I used to do this with NFS,
> but the box that will be running emerge --sync has a history of locking
> up if there is more than one semi-heavy process going on it at a time,
> so I want each box to have its own copy of the tree.  Is there a way to
> do this?

Just setup two boxes to rsync to you primary "emerge --sync box" using
cron. See: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml

Regards,

Aniruddha