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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:40:22 -0800, Edward M |
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<edwardm.gentoo.java@××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> Been busy learning Linux :-) got new email other was getting crowded. |
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> I'm planing on installing Gentoo on a few systems and I was wondering |
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> to save bandwidth, i could install portage to the other Gentoo |
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> installs from my system instead downloading from mirrors? |
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> Thanks in advance! |
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Setting up a local rsync mirror for a portage tree is fairly simple, |
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you share the working tree at /usr/portage on a local server to |
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the network and make sure the server is up-to-date before syncing other |
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clients to it. This is documented in [1]. After setting up the mirror, |
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you only need to sync-uri in /etc/portage/repos.conf on the other |
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(local) clients. See portage(5)[2], section 'repos.conf' and |
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make.conf(5)[3], section 'SYNC' for details on client configuration. |
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Please *do* read those sections, as much of the information on the wiki |
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regarding the SYNC variable is outdated. |
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For sharing distfiles between hosts, a http server sharing the |
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distfiles folder and prepending the server's uri to GENTOO_MIRRORS in |
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make.conf[3] might be sufficient for your needs. If the installs are |
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not homogenous, you can even set up http servers on all of them, and |
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add all the other local hosts to GENTOO_MIRRORS. |
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You might want to skim through the FEATURES section in make.conf(5)[3] |
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for using local distfiles mirrors, as some of them can improve the |
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usefulness of the mirror significantly. |
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NFS is another possibility for both portage tree and distfiles and can |
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reduce total disk space needs, but it incurs significant network |
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latency which is especially noticeable for portage trees. I use it |
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myself for virtual machines, but would not suggest it for use over a |
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physical network. Also note that portage has PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS[3] as |
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an alternative to GENTOO_MIRRORS for eg. read-only *mounted* network |
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shares which may provide some extra flexibility. |
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1: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Rsync#Setting_up_your_own_local_rsync_mirror |
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2: https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html |
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3: https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/make.conf.5.html |
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