On Thursday 27 October 2005 09:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:06:43 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > We're trying to set up a local portage repository for our webservers to > > use, as we'd like our webservers to NOT have compilers and other dev > > tools on them. We'd prefer to have the webservers get the packages via > > rsync over ssh, but I can't seem to find anywhere to specify that > > transport for getting packages. I'm assuming to make it look at my > > repository server, we put that server in the "MIRRORS" in the global > > make.conf file, correct? And I realize we can specify rsync:// as the > > url to make it use rsync, but I need it to use a specific user for ssh > > authentication, and ssh as the transport. > > This is clearly documented in the rsync man page; rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > makes > it use a specific user. rsync uses ssh by default now. > Yes, I read that man page quite a bit. I have written a script that uses from the command line rsync --rsh="ssh -l username" server::module/files successfully. However, changing the SYNC line in make.conf to rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED] give me a connection refused. Can someone clarify the behavior difference between rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED] and rsync --rsh="ssh -l username" server::? > MIRRORS covers where source tarballs are downloaded from. As you don't > want to compile on the server, you should be setting PORTAGE_BINHOST. See > man make.conf.
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