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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I have two machines. To be "kinder and gentler" on the mirrors, I've |
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>set things up so that my emergency machine (1999 Dell 450mhz PIII with |
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>128 megs of RAM) uses my main machine as the mirror for "emerge --sync". |
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> The next step is to use my main machine as the first place to look for |
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>tarballs if they're not in /usr/portage/distfiles on the PIII, and then |
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>go on to the next mirror. Since I set up the PIII as my emergency "hot |
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>backup" for my main machine, the apps on both machines are generally the |
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>same, but unlike the portage tree, I can't guarantee that it'll be |
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>exactly the same, so rsync is out. On my main machine... |
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>GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/" |
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> Assuming that I set up ftpd or httpd properly on my main machine, |
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>would it work if I set my second machines's mirrors to something like... |
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>GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.123.252/distfiles/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/" |
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I used http-replicator to do my other three servers. It worked really |
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well. It looks at your server first then gets it from one of the |
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mirrors if you don't have it yet. After that, the other systems can |
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share it. It's in portage too. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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