On 07/06/21 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:55 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>> You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine >>> to spread the load. >>> >>> >> >> Ah, that's also interesting ... that's like an alternative to a local >> binary server (which I'm currently doing) - the compilations are >> distributed on all nodes in the network - and then, presumably are also >> available to all nodes? ... > > The compilation is distributed but the result is only available to the > host running emerge. However, if you set FEATURES=buildpkg and set > $PKGDIR to a shared directory, you could use the same binaries on other > systems, provided they are set up the same. > > That's roughly what I did - with two systems, they were set up to build compatible packages, and store all the gentoo stuff on shared drives. So depending on which one I rebuilt when, they often upgraded from binary packages built by the other machine.
Cheers, Wol
