> > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the http > > proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package files so > I > > only have to perform the download from the net once to keep the entire > > internal network up to date. > > Does this handle pkg X being needed by the client, but not needed for > the pkg server? This has been the only thing holding me back from doing > similar...
Yes, I've got different architectures and different gentoo bases (some x86, some ~x86). Since it is a proxy it will either return an exact match out of the cache or fetch it. Only the first system that looks for a package will be forced to suffer the download delay, the rest (since I'm running 100Mb intranet) wait only seconds for even the largest packages (i.e. OO etc.). Works like a charm and, once set up, can be completely ignored. Even comes with a support script to clean out the cache to remove old files. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
