On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:10:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > 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?
No, because it is just a network mounted directory. It can be on a Windows box if that's what you have available. Unlike the whole portage tree, this is just a collection of source code tarballs. -- Neil Bothwick ASSISTANT MANAGER: Feminine form of the word manager (q.v.).
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