On Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:49:42 BST Dale wrote: > n952...@web.de wrote: > > Thanks to all who reponded: > > - Rich Freeman suggests: > > - having apache serve the local distfiles. > > > > How? Just make them available in the apache root and give portage > > the URL somewhere?> > > - use "infra scripts", but I think that's for running an up-to-date > > general-purpose mirror > > > > He explains later that repos.conf defines the single place where the > > repository is defined but that is distinct from where the distfiles > > come from, which is defined by make.conf:GENTOO_MIRRORS > > > > - Dale suggests: > > - a package, http-replicator, which might do Freeman's first > > > > suggestion. > > > > - Neil Bothwick explains the difference between serving the "portage > > > > mirror, the repository of ebuild and associated files" and the > > distfiles, and suggests using NFS, presumably instead of, or in > > addition to /usr/portage/distfiles. > > > > Okay, I looked for the first time at the files directly under > > /usr/portage. > > Is it a correct assumption that all packages available for > > installation will be represented there? And that's it? That's > > basically all there is to a gentoo installation? - > > /usr/portage/distfiles > > - the ebuilds directly under /usr/portage > > - /usr/portage/eclass > > - /usr/portage/metadata > > - /usr/portage/profiles > > - /etc/portage > > > > If so, then I'm delighted in the simplicity of it. Like reading the > > one page definition of tcl. Unfortunately, it doesn't come through so > > well in the documentation, with things like layouts seemingly basic > > to an understanding. > > > > - Peter Humphrey suggests: > > - http ftp proxy > > > > In what way is that different from rsync which I thought I'd > > already configured? > Just to add some more info. By changing the settings in make.conf, you > can move these directories wherever you like. As a example, I moved > mine here: > > > root@fireball / # ls -al /var/cache/portage/ > total 160 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 20 2012 . > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Apr 24 03:18 .. > drwxrwxr-x 3 portage portage 143360 Apr 26 04:06 distfiles > drwxr-xr-x 105 portage portage 4096 Apr 26 04:04 packages > drwxr-xr-x 174 portage portage 4096 Apr 22 23:32 tree > root@fireball / # > > > I have these settings in make.conf to match where I put things: > > > > DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles/" > PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" > PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/tree"
Just to mention the PORTDIR variable is no longer meant to be declared in / etc/portage/make.conf, but in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf, using the 'location = ' directive. See URL below: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PORTDIR -- Regards, Mick
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