On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >> Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my > >> ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: > > > >Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles instead of using > >bind mounts? > > Because binding the directory to /home/ftp/pub makes the distfiles > available to the rest of one's network via anonymous ftp. I do the > same thing here, without the "pub" subdirectory, and exclude /home/ftp/ > from my backups.
So the distfiles are actually in /usr/portage/distfiles? I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is shared across all machines on the network and DISTDIR is set to /mnt/portage/distfiles in each make.conf. Sharing /mnt/portage like this means I can also share my overlay across the network at /mnt/portage/local. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live
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