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On Monday 18 April 2011 16:48:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your |
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> > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded |
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> > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public |
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> > Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files |
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> > that some client has already downloaded are also available for every |
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> > other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. |
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> > The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might |
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> > attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to |
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> > start your updates at different times to avoid this. |
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> Yes, that's how I understood it, but I was looking ahead to a time when the |
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> server might not be running Gentoo, in which case I wanted a mechanism to |
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> obtain the distfiles to put on the server. |
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Never mind. The penny's finally dropped. Thanks to both. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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