On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:58:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > The first step would be to mount /usr/portage on a separate machine > > using NFS. Setup an NFS server on that remote box, export the > > directory as rw, and then mount it as rw on your machine in fstab. At > > this point all the code that's downloaded by your box is actually > > placed on another machine where you have space. Keep i mind that this > > is 2-3 times the network traffic when you are building code - > > Internet->small machine->NFS drive for storage-> small machine to be > > built. None the less it works. > > > > More practical is to just do things normall and watch after the > > /usr/portage/distfiles. > > A better approach may be to point DISTDIR to an NFS or Samba drive. > That way you get the speed of a local portage tree with the distfiles > held elsewhere. This cuts down on the network traffic as only the > unpacking is done over the network. >
This depends on having a fairly normal Gentoo box on the network that does the emerge sync, right? What I want to set up here, now that I've got 5 Gentoo boxes in the house, is just one machine that does all the downloads and holds the portage tree and all the other machines just reading it but never writing it. Any problems? - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
