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On 14/02/14 14:59, Edward M wrote: |
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> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:55:19 +0200 |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> |
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>> On 13/02/2014 18:35, Edward M wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:44:02 +0200 |
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>>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>>> On 13/02/2014 02:40, Edward M wrote: |
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>>>>> Howdy, |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Been busy learning Linux :-) got new email other was getting |
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>>>>> crowded. I'm planing on installing Gentoo on a few systems and I |
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>>>>> was wondering to save bandwidth, i could install portage to the |
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>>>>> other Gentoo installs from my system instead downloading from |
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>>>>> mirrors? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Thanks in advance! |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Yes. |
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>>>> The stage are just tarballs, download them once, copy to the new |
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>>>> location and unpack. |
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>>>> Same with the portage snapshots. |
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>>>> Same with the distfiles. |
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>>>> they are just files, copy them to where they need to be and use |
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>>>> them, or let emerge find them. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Read the install docs first and learn more about how Linux works on |
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>>>> the command line. Pretty soon you'll find the bits where the manual |
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>>>> says "download such-and-such from this place" and you'll spot that |
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>>>> if you already have the downloadable file you can just use it |
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>>>> already. |
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>>> |
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>>> Alan, |
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>>> |
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>>> I want to apologized I did not thanked you for the great advice |
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>>> you gave me. I noticed this this morning when I re-read my emails. |
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>>> |
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>>> Best Regards. |
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>> |
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>> No problem. Come check my inbox sometime, any given mail stands a 1 |
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>> in 3 chance of being answered at all :-) |
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>> I see earlier in the thread someone mentioned sharing the portage tree |
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>> over NFS. Now this is by far the best solution of all in terms of |
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>> outright performance; but be warned up front - there are pitfalls. |
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>> NFS is nothing like setting up a Windows share, and there's nothing |
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>> about it that just magically works. Folks new to Linux often have |
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>> heaps of trouble with it (mostly because NFS assumes you are going to |
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>> do a whole lot of heavy lifting yourself and you have already dealt |
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>> with the tricky issue of keeping user accounts in sync, and |
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>> permission woes). So by all means use NFS, just know upfront the |
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>> learning curve is steepish, and the good folks on this list can give |
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>> tons of good advice as well as get you through the arcane basics :-) |
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> Thank you for this valuable advice. |
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> I have been doing some research using bing and google and I found some |
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> howtos,docs setting up NFS portage. hope they work. thanks again |
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An easier method than NFS that avoids some of the pitfalls is |
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http-replicator. Works like an upstream mirror - the first request |
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causes the files to be downloaded to the cache and supplied to the host |
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- then the next host to need the same files gets served from the cache. |
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Also handles parallel requests unlike NFS. |
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