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

[Dale]

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"


If you need to move things to a place that is more convenient for you,
it is doable.  The only thing I don't think you can move is /etc/portage
itself.  I think that has to be there.  Other than that, move things
where you need them to be.  There are others who have placed theirs in
other places and as long as you tell portage where it is at, you can
adjust them as needed. 

Hope that extra info helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)