[gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

[Thomas Drueke]

Hi,

is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ?

The setup is
- machine A is equipped with a Quad core CPU
- machine B is equipped with an N330 Atom-CPU
- machine A is doing the system update on a local chroot-environment
  for machine B and generates binary packages. These packages are
  installed on machine B using the binary package feature of portage.

I expected that the above setup would give an performance improvement
over letting machine B do the portage update itself. However a trial run
did not show significant improvement that justifies the effort. Machine
B still needs a reasonable amount of time to fetch unpack and install
the packages.

An alternative way might be to mount machine B's / directory via NFS
and change make.conf's $ROOT variable to that mount point.

Does that sound as a reasonable approach ?

Regards,
Thomas