Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

[Dale]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>
>> Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync
>>> /usr/portage/packages
>>> as well.
>>>
>> This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_ distfiles
>> available locall, you have to setup a mirror. AFAIK this is also documented
>> somewhere.
>>
>>
>
> No, I have a different situation.
> I many several identical machines.
> On the 'main' machine I have
> FEATURES="buildpkg"
> in /etc/make.conf
>
> Then, from time to time I synchronize the other machines.
> On these machines,
> SYNC="rsync://<my main machine>/gentoo-portage
>
> On the 'slaves' I do
> rm -f /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp*
> emerge --sync
>
> and I'd like this 'sync' to rsync /usr/portage/packages,
> as well, since lateron I do
>
> emerge --update --deep --usepkg world
>
> to avoid length compilation of packages on
> each machine.
>
> Currently I need
> /usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes rsync://<main machine>/gentoo-portage/ .
> in addition to
> emerge -sync
>
> I just wonder if it's possible to tell emerge somewhere to not exclude
> the 'packages' subdirectory.
>
> thanks for all your comments,
> Helmut.
>
>
>

I'm not sure this will help but have you checked rsyncd.conf?   Mine has
this little bit in it:

[gentoo-portage]
    path = /usr/portage
    comment = Gentoo Portage tree
    exclude = /distfiles /packages


May want to remove the excludes there.  See if that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-) 
-- 
gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list