Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix-sync data comparison
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:11:01
Message-Id: 20140112121053.14c2d4ad@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eix-sync data comparison by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:15:45 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
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3 > > If you want to reduce the data downloaded, then by all means configure
4 > > rsyncd to share the tree on the PC, and point the ARM to that. Don't
5 > > worry about overlays, the amount of changed data from them is usually
6 > > too small to worry about.
7 >
8 > You might want to look into http-replicator for that, together with
9 > rsyncd. I find it handy, and of course I have nothing like Alan's load,
10 > though it's often nice to play at being a good netizen.
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12 Setting DISTDIR to a network shared location is a good yet simple way of
13 reducing bandwidth demands.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird.
20 Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

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