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From: Gregory Fontenele <gregoryfontenele@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Cc: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge server
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:33:23
Message-Id: C4BE428A-04F1-4592-90E5-E322D77729AF@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emerge server by Peter Humphrey
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5 Em 21/03/2011, às 07:40, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> escreveu:
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7 > Hello list,
8 >
9 > I'm setting my i5 workstation up to be an emerge host to a new Atom N550 box
10 > on the LAN. I've created a 32-bit chroot at /mnt/atom on the i5 box, written
11 > an init.d script to mount the Atom's whole file system on /mnt/atom/target
12 > over NFS, and set an alias
13 > tmerj='emerge --root=/target --jobs=5 --keep-going'
14 > in /mnt/atom/etc/profile.d/profile_aliases.sh.
15 >
16 > The Atom box has had nfs-utils installed at an early stage so that the
17 > workstation can do all the heavy work. Its /etc/exports file says
18 > / 192.168.2.6(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check
19 >
20 > This appears to be working, but for an odd wrinkle (and it's too early to
21 > declare success of the whole operation). Some packages, such as MySQL, when
22 > I've installed them this way have also been installed in parallel on the
23 > host machine. At least, that appeared to be happening because for several
24 > packages I had one job emerge " to /target/" and another emerge without that
25 > qualification. Yet when I cat /mnt/atom/var/lib/portage/world, it's empty.
26 >
27 > How should I interpret this? Have I missed something in the setup? I'm also
28 > unsure of the effect of /proc and /sys being nfs-exported from the Atom, so I
29 > think I'll make the export a bit more selective (when gentoo-sources have
30 > finished being written to disk - it's been about 20 minutes so far).
31 >
32 > Incidentally, one thing I've noticed is that the final stage of installing
33 > gentoo-sources, the writing to disk of all the files, takes many minutes
34 > because of the slow 2.5" disk in the Atom box. The rest of the operation, so
35 > far, is pleasingly quick - much better than building natively on the Atom.
36 >
37 > --
38 > Rgds
39 > Peter
40 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge server Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>