On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:24 +0100, Huib van Wees wrote: > > On 1/30/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one > portage > > tree on one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with > different > > world files. Will several parallel "emerge --fetchonly" > processes on > > those different boxes still be safe? > > Yes, because portage uses lockfiles in $DISTDIR. Once one > emerge begins > downloading a file, any others wanting that file will wait for > it. > > I can remember that export the portage dir for other host wasn't > supported and can cause problems.... Or did I missread/misinterpert > the documentation? > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, > > H. van Wees > --- > The official Gentoo motto is, "If it moves, compile it."
I've exported /usr/portage through NFS from my server box to two client boxes for a couple of years now, and I've never had any problems with it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
