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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: |
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>> If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, |
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>> takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what |
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>> you are hosting from what you are using. Otherwise you end up in the |
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>> situation that you have started one system update (or software |
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>> install), have a build failure for whatever reason, and then can't |
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>> complete the same one due to changes in the local copy of portage. |
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> You can still use emerge -sync instead of a home brewed script. In make |
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> conf, set SYNC to localhost, then in your cron job, do |
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> SYNC="some gentoo rsync mirror" emerge --sync |
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>> So, even if your system fell into the first situation - where it is |
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>> fast enough |
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>> - then I would still recommend doing the little extra to run as the |
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>> second situation. It's just far easier to maintain. |
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> I've been using a single portage tree to serve a LAN and for use by the |
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> host for years with no hint of any of the problems you suggest. I just |
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> make sure the cron job on the server syncs earlier than the rest of the |
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> LAN and everything is up to date. |
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I used to have four computers a good while back. Back then, I synced my |
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main rig then synced the others off it. This was several years ago. I |
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don't use a cron job or anything to do this, just some old fashioned |
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typing. I don't recall ever having trouble with it syncing to my main |
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rig. Did I mention it was a very old Compaq 200MHz CPU machine with a |
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whopping 128MBs of ram? Thing looks like a filing cabinet. |
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To me, it seems the OP is making something complicated when it is just |
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not needed. If you want to use cron jobs, set the main rig to sync a |
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hour before the others would be set to sync against it. If the rig that |
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syncs to Gentoo servers is to slow, set them two hours apart. From my |
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understanding, you get the same tree all the way around. |
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Giving some more thought, I once put /usr/portage on nfs. I sync once |
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and all the systems used the same copy of the tree. The other way |
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worked out to be easier tho. I seem to recall the need for running |
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emerge --metadata too. That took a while on the old Compaq. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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