Am 05.04.2011 11:46, schrieb Jake Moe: > On 04/05/11 18:14, KH wrote: >> Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: >>> On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: >>> >>>> I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you >>>> trying to do something fancier than just serving out tarballs? >>> Yes; I want it to mirror my portage tree and serve it to other boxes on the >>> LAN. >>> It used to do this well enough; I just want to get the permissions right. >> Hi, >> >> why not using the handbook-way? >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml#doc_chap2 >> I am doing it that way. >> >> Regards KH > +1 > > I've got four boxes in my home network, and I have one pull down the > updates, the other three sync with that one. > > I've also set up proftpd to allow anonymous read-only access to my > /usr/portage/distfiles folder, so the other three can try to pull their > packages from locally first as well, and if that box hasn't downloaded > it yet, only then will they try to retrieve it from the Internet. See > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_local_Portage_and_Package_Mirror > for info. > > Jake Moe
Hi Jake Moe, for the distfiles http-replicator is great. Example: Box one has the tarball. Box 2, 3 and 4 can download it as well. Box one does not have the tarball. Box 2 may search for it, box one will download it and give it to box 2. Then box 3 and 4 can download it from box one as well. Regards KH -- _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) against HTML e-mail X / \ ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org