Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:40:30 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> eix and portage are telling me:
> ========================================
> [D] www-servers/boa
>      Available versions:  [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1
> [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21
>      Installed versions:  0.94.13-r1(16:46:05 03/19/07)(-tetex)
>      Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
>      Description:         Boa - A very small and very fast http daemon
> ========================================
>
> However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still
> shown as stable.  The Changelog is not showing anything to explain
> why it has been masked.  Am I missing something?
>
> If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my
> distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?
nfs.  

I have been using nfs for portage and distfiles with much success
so far.  I find that nfs access for portage is only a little slower
than having it on a local, unoptimized partition.  I save lots of time
with this method, since my new hosts on the network have instant
portage trees without having to wait for that long portage extraction.
I mount /usr/portage read-only and then distfiles read-write over the
top so that I can save new downloads if I need to.  

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