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Hi all, |
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I have been running several Gentoo machines here at my house, and am |
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currently up to 7 (or was it 8?) installs. |
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I have been trying to reduce my resource consumption and set up an rsync |
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mirror long ago, so my [acting] server only syncs to the internet and |
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all other devices point to it. That part is working fine, I've already |
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moved it to the repos.conf configuration. |
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Whenever I search for running a local distfiles mirror (on this list and |
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on the web) it gets a bit murky. |
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The way I see it is this can be done a couple of ways: |
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1. Set up a lighttpd server to serve the distfiles directory. |
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This has the benefit of being able to sync machines outside my network, |
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although I don't know if I'd expose it to the internet. |
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The major issue I can see with this is that if the file doesn't exist, |
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portage will crap out saying it's not available. What I don't know is if |
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there's an easy way to "get around" this issue. |
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</1.> |
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2. Export the distfiles directory. |
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This seems to be a bit better of a solution, other than not being able |
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to use it outside the LAN. However, cleaning this directory becomes a |
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lot less trivial as tools used to clean it will assume that the current |
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machine is the only machine using it and clobber other workstation's |
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required distfiles. |
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I suppose the easiest way to sync is to wipe it completely out and run |
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`emerge -fe world` on all machines to rebuild it, but this would be a |
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fair bit of work as well. |
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</2.> |
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With those two options, neither being perfect - it made me wonder if |
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there's a Better Way(tm) to do this. |
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In the case of a shared distfiles, it would be best if something was one |
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the machine hosting the distfiles monitoring what workstation needed |
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what file and only removing a file when no workstations request it. |
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Alas, I don't think a tool such as that exists (although I didn't really |
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look that hard.) |
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Ideally, it would be nice to have some sort of caching proxy that could |
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fetch the file as it was needed, but in searching for this I encountered |
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so much noise in the search results I gave up for the time being. |
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Anyone have any suggestions? |
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Dan |
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