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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:48:49
Message-Id: 39f565a1-ab65-fb21-2973-a9dc2994649b@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages by Marc Joliet
1 On 07/01/18 03:56, Marc Joliet wrote:
2 > Am Samstag, 30. Juni 2018, 19:50:47 CEST schrieb Daniel Frey:
3 >> Hi all,
4 >>
5 >> Some background: I run mythtv with a single backend and five frontends.
6 >>
7 >> For many, many years I've been using binpkg to help ease the compile
8 >> pain on my Intel NUC Celeron-based frontends. I use distcc on one to
9 >> compile all my packages and export /usr/portage/packages via nfs.
10 >>
11 >> I am wondering if it's possible to get emerge to mount
12 >> /usr/portage/packages before actually emerging anything. I've been
13 >> mounting that directory manually but once in a while I forget to.
14 >>
15 >> Dan
16 >
17 > I don't know much about NFS, but... what about autofs? That would mount the
18 > FS on first access, and AFAIK can unmount it after a period of inactivity.
19 >
20 > HTH
21 >
22
23 Thanks all for the replies.
24
25 I was thinking about a wrapper too but figured there must be a more
26 elegant way. I think autofs will fit that type of solution; I'm going to
27 look into that.
28
29 Dan

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