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We want to be "kinder and gentler" to the Gentoo mirrors. I have 2 |
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machines; my main machine and a 1999 450 mhz PIII as "hot backup". I |
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try to keep the backup up to date with apps duplicating the main |
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machine, so that if the main machine dies, I can restore some data from |
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backups and be running in a couple of hours. |
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The procedure for "emerge --rsync" using the main machine as server is |
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simple. I'll now present my solution for /usr/portage/distfiles. This |
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obviously works best for machines with a similar set of apps. Run |
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emerge update on the server machine first. It'll get the tarballs it |
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needs, and they'll be sitting in /usr/portage/distfiles, waiting to be |
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served out to other machines in your LAN that need the same tarballs. |
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I use the "boa" webserver. It's lighweight, simple to configure, and |
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you can run multiple instances simultaneously. That is the best way to |
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separate privileges for different clients. |
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*IMPORTANT* Gentoo's emerge command always looks in the "distfiles" |
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folder below whatever URL it's given for a mirror. E.g. if I specify |
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"http://www.bad.example.com" as the mirror to use, emerge will look in |
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"http://www.bad.example.com/distfiles". The "Alias" declaration in |
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boa.conf handles this. The secondary machine's /etc/make.conf has the |
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line... |
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GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.123.252:1024 ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" |
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so it'll try my main machine (192.168.123.252 on port 1024) first. I |
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invoke the portage server dedicated boa with the command... |
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boa -c /root/.boa/portage/ |
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which implies that the config file to use is /root/.boa/portage/boa.conf |
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My /root/.boa/portage/boa.conf currently looks like so... |
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Port 1024 |
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Listen 192.168.123.252 |
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User nobody |
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Group nogroup |
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ErrorLog /var/log/boa/portage/error_log |
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AccessLog /var/log/boa/portage/access_log |
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DocumentRoot /usr/portage/distfiles/ |
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UseLocaltime |
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DirectoryMaker /usr/lib/boa/boa_indexer |
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KeepAliveMax 1000 |
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KeepAliveTimeout 10 |
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MimeTypes /etc/boa/mime.types |
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DefaultType text/plain |
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Alias /distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles |
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Note that in addition to using a dedicated I/O port, the "portage |
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instance" of boa also has its own log files. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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