On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Ah, OK - good point, although that wasn't the portion of network traffic I was speaking about. I was thinking of the source code arriving at the house, going from the router to the local box, off to the share and then back to the local machine again to get unpacked. Anyway, thanks. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
