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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:48:50 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Alternatively, use an NFS mount as $DISTDIR and you don't end up with |
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>>> copies of the tarballs on every machine on the network. |
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>> I did that once and I don't recall having any problems. I had 4 rigs |
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>> plus a really slow dial-up connection. When I found out about |
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>> http-replicator and rsync, I started using it. I couldn't tell any |
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>> difference tho. |
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>> If you do use NFS, I think you have to run emerge --metadata on the |
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>> secondary machines. That may have changed since it has been a while. |
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> You may do if you put $PORTDIR on NFS, but I am only sharing $DISTDIR. |
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I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles and all. I wasn't to |
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clear on what I was doing in my reply up there. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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