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On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:24 +0100, Huib van Wees wrote: |
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> On 1/30/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> > Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one |
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> portage |
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> > tree on one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with |
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> different |
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> > world files. Will several parallel "emerge --fetchonly" |
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> processes on |
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> > those different boxes still be safe? |
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> Yes, because portage uses lockfiles in $DISTDIR. Once one |
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> emerge begins |
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> downloading a file, any others wanting that file will wait for |
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> it. |
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> I can remember that export the portage dir for other host wasn't |
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> supported and can cause problems.... Or did I missread/misinterpert |
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> the documentation? |
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> -- |
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> Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, |
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> H. van Wees |
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> --- |
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> The official Gentoo motto is, "If it moves, compile it." |
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I've exported /usr/portage through NFS from my server box to two client |
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boxes for a couple of years now, and I've never had any problems with |
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it... |
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