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On 1/29/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> On Monday 29 January 2007 11:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:47:47 -0800, kashani wrote: |
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> > > I wouldn't bother with a full mirror. Set a local rsync server that |
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> > > updates once a day and use http-replicator. That would be far less |
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> > > bandwidth than trying to keep a local dist server current. |
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> > |
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> > If daytime bandwidth is a particular issue, you can set up a cron |
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> > task on one of more machines (depending on the variety of packages in |
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> > use) to do |
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> > |
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> > emerge --sync && emerge -uDNf world |
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> > |
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> > to prime the cache during the night. That should reduce your daytime |
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> > downloads to almost zero. |
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> The daytime bandwidth is indeed the issue. This is South Africa, where |
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> technologically everything is top-notch first-world. Except for |
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> bandwidth. By local standards our pipe is quite big - a whopping 512k. |
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> Shared amongst two offices and 140 users. At least I get to do whatever |
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> I want with the bandwidth after hours - no real users to compete with, |
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> just their torrents :-) |
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> |
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> I already use a fairly complicate solution with emerge -pvf and wget in |
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> a cron on one of the fileservers, but it's getting cumbersome. And I'd |
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> rather not maintain an entire gentoo install on a server simply to act |
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> as a proxy. Would I be right in saying that I'd have to keep |
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> the "proxy" machine up to date to avoid the inevitable blockers that |
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> will happen in short order if I don't? |
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> I've been looking into kashani's suggestion of http-replicator, this |
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> might be a good interim solution till I can come up with something |
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> better suited to our needs. |
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> |
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I'm using a different setup, of course its a small number of machines |
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(like 5 or 6), but it works great. I use NFS to mount |
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/usr/portage/distfiles on a server sharing this dir. Each time someone |
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request a file, it goes directly to the shared dir, being available |
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for all machines. This way, its only 1 request per new file, and only |
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files that are needed for update of the particular software most |
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machines have in common. |
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