Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:38:06 +1000, Jake Moe wrote:
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.
Well, I suppose I'll have to look into that then, won't I? Thanks for
the info.
Alternatively, use an NFS mount as $DISTDIR and you don't end up with
copies of the tarballs on every machine on the network.
I did that once and I don't recall having any problems. I had 4 rigs
plus a really slow dial-up connection. When I found out about
http-replicator and rsync, I started using it. I couldn't tell any
difference tho.
If you do use NFS, I think you have to run emerge --metadata on the
secondary machines. That may have changed since it has been a while.
Dale
:-) :-)
