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Am 18.04.2011 16:35, schrieb Peter Humphrey: |
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> On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>> Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo |
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>>> box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the |
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>>> LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after |
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>>> all. |
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>> Why do you need http-replicator for that. Use an NFS share and set |
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>> DISTDIR to its mount point on each Gentoo box. It's far less complicated. |
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> Perhaps I'm being dense today, but I don't follow you. I was assuming the Atom |
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> box would hold the distfiles and the Gentoo boxes obtain them from it, one way or |
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> another. How are you assuming I'll fetch the files from Out There? I've tried |
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> relying on a Squid proxy, but often it doesn't keep the files I want - even after |
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> I've raised the file size limit to something like 80MB. |
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In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your |
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server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded |
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files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public |
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Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files |
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that some client has already downloaded are also available for every |
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other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. |
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The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might |
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attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to |
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start your updates at different times to avoid this. |
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Hope this makes it a bit clearer, |
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Florian Philipp |
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