Re: Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors (summary, leading to more questions)

[Mick]

On Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:49:42 BST Dale wrote:
> n952162@×××.de wrote:
> > Thanks to all who reponded:
> >   - Rich Freeman suggests:
> >     - having apache serve the local distfiles.
> >
> >       How?  Just make them available in the apache root and give portage
> >       the URL somewhere?>
> >     - use "infra scripts", but I think that's for running an up-to-date
> >     general-purpose mirror
> >
> >     He explains later that repos.conf defines the single place where the
> >     repository is defined but that is distinct from where the distfiles
> >     come from, which is defined by make.conf:GENTOO_MIRRORS
> >
> >   - Dale suggests:
> >     - a package, http-replicator, which might do Freeman's first
> >
> >       suggestion.
> >
> >   - Neil Bothwick explains  the difference between serving the "portage
> >
> >     mirror, the repository of ebuild and associated files" and the
> >     distfiles, and suggests using NFS, presumably instead of, or in
> >     addition to /usr/portage/distfiles.
> >
> >     Okay, I looked for the first time at the files directly under
> >     /usr/portage.
> >     Is it a correct assumption that all packages available for
> >     installation will be represented there? And that's it?  That's
> >     basically all there is to a gentoo installation? -
> >     /usr/portage/distfiles
> >     - the ebuilds directly under /usr/portage
> >     - /usr/portage/eclass
> >     - /usr/portage/metadata
> >     - /usr/portage/profiles
> >     - /etc/portage
> >
> >     If so, then I'm delighted in the simplicity of it.  Like reading the
> >     one page definition of tcl. Unfortunately, it doesn't come through so
> >     well in the documentation, with things like layouts seemingly basic
> >     to an understanding.
> >
> >   - Peter Humphrey suggests:
> >     -  http ftp proxy
> >
> >         In what way is that different from rsync which I thought I'd
> >         already configured?
> Just to add some more info.  By changing the settings in make.conf, you
> can move these directories wherever you like.  As a example, I moved
> mine here:
>
>
> root@fireball / # ls -al /var/cache/portage/
> total 160
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root    root      4096 Dec 20  2012 .
> drwxr-xr-x  13 root    root      4096 Apr 24 03:18 ..
> drwxrwxr-x   3 portage portage 143360 Apr 26 04:06 distfiles
> drwxr-xr-x 105 portage portage   4096 Apr 26 04:04 packages
> drwxr-xr-x 174 portage portage   4096 Apr 22 23:32 tree
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> I have these settings in make.conf to match where I put things:
>
>
>
> DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles/"
> PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages"
> PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/tree"

Just to mention the PORTDIR variable is no longer meant to be declared in /
etc/portage/make.conf, but in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf, using the 
'location = ' directive.  See URL below:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PORTDIR


-- 
Regards,
Mick