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On Friday, 26 April 2019 08:48:54 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> As well as the suggestions from Rich and Dale, you can also use a shared |
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> directory - I use NFS for this but I see no reason why CIFS wouldn't also |
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> work - for $DISTDIR. This is set in make.conf and tells portage where to |
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> save downloaded files. As portage checks to see if the file is already |
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> there before downloading it, only the first system to need it will |
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> download it, the rest will use the existing copy. |
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> Just set up an NFS export on the host computer and mount that on the |
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> others, then change make.conf to use that location. |
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Yet another idea is to run net-proxy/squid on one machine and set that as your |
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download mirror. I used to do that and it worked well. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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