Re: [gentoo-user] to install portage on other gentoo installs

[Edward M]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:55:19 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

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

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