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On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote: |
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> So the distfiles are actually in /usr/portage/distfiles? |
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for me yes, it looks the same for David. |
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> I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies of |
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> the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is |
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> shared across all machines on the network and DISTDIR is set |
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> to /mnt/portage/distfiles in each make.conf. |
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> Sharing /mnt/portage like this means I can also share my overlay across |
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> the network at /mnt/portage/local. |
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Until I pick up my laptop and drive to work, where network speeds to my |
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server drop from 100Mbit to 50kbit and I need that local copy! |
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Which is why I'm glad there are multiple ways to do it :) |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Old robot: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe. |
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