On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
... > So the distfiles are actually in /usr/portage/distfiles? for me yes, it looks the same for David. > 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. Until I pick up my laptop and drive to work, where network speeds to my server drop from 100Mbit to 50kbit and I need that local copy! Which is why I'm glad there are multiple ways to do it :) -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Old robot: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.
