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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:59:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > So if you run this on a suitable cross-section of machines |
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> > overnight, http-replicator's cache will be primed by the time you |
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> > stumble bleary-eyed into the office. |
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> That has to be the most accurate description of my typical mornings |
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> I've ever read anywhere... :-) |
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If we were meant to turn up at work wide awake, $DEITY wouldn't have |
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given us coffee machines :) |
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> > If all your machines run a similar mix of software, say KDE desktops, |
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> > you only need to run the cron task on one of them. |
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> Um, that's the hard part. Here's KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, e17 - just for |
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> WMs. All machines are ~x86 but that's where the similarities end. I |
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> suppose I could set up a master machine whose world is a combination of |
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> all the clients. But whatever I chose, the solution doe not appear to |
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> be simple :-( |
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There's nothing to stop you installing all the DE/WMs on one box, it |
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doesn't have to use them all, or run emerge -uf world on more than one. |
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I guess you could also join all your world files into one, remove dupes |
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and do something like "emerge -uf system; xargs emerge -uDf <masterfile". |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Don't be humble, you're not that great. |
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