Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

[Dale]

Nils Holland wrote:
> On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan     , Francesco Talamona wrote:
>
>> On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote:
>>
>>> I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all
>>> of the  parameters are correct
>>>
>> Why not something proven and reliable like "emerge --sync"?
>>
> In fact, what I always do is sync one of my machines with an official
> Gentoo mirror via "emerge --sync", and then I just use rsync to
> distribute the updated tree to all my other local machines as in:
>
> rsync --delete -trmv /usr/portage/<user>@<dest_host>:/usr/portage
>
> One might want to ask rsync to exclude the distfiles directory,
> but I always include it as it oftentimes saves me the download of a
> file I've already downloaded during an emerge on another machine.
>
> In any case, locally updating my tree via rsync has always worked fine
> for me. Leaving the "--delete" option to rsync out, however,
> immediately leads to problems, with various ebuild-related error
> messages on subsequent "emerge"s. I can imagine that the OP did, in
> fact, update his tree in such an inconsistent manner, but that can
> certainly be fixed, with the surest way being a "emerge --sync" using
> an official mirror.
>
> Greetings,
> Nils
>

Maybe I am missing something but I have two machines here.  I sync to 
the Gentoo servers with the main rig and then sync the second rig from 
the main rig.  All you have to do is start the rsync service and set the 
IP address in the SYNC line in make.conf on the second rig.  This is my 
rsyncd.conf on the main rig:

# Simple example for enabling your own local rsync server
[gentoo-portage]
path = /usr/portage
comment = Gentoo Portage tree
exclude = /distfiles /packages

If you want to include distfiles, just remove it from the exclude line.  
For my distfiles, I run http-replicator to fetch those.  It works pretty 
well.

Dale

:-)  :-)