From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16939 invoked by uid 1002); 12 May 2003 18:30:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 224 invoked from network); 12 May 2003 18:30:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 13:30:45 -0500 From: Steven Lucy To: Stuart Herbert Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030512133045.A22972@harper.uchicago.edu> References: <010601c3189f$152fb2a0$c000a8c0@Churchill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <010601c3189f$152fb2a0$c000a8c0@Churchill>; from stuart@myrddraal.demon.co.uk on Mon, May 12, 2003 at 04:56:37PM +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FW: rsync etiquette follow-up X-Archives-Salt: c1970e8b-bee2-45f0-becd-3f51ec6bd514 X-Archives-Hash: 30061d16ef90b9ef5b7a6a6f25570d31 On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Stuart Herbert said > I know that I could run an rsync mirror just for internal use - and that > would help a lot. Running a distfiles mirror is a lot less practical. It > would be much better if there was a way to share '/usr/portage' across > multiple machines. You can't do this safely via NFS. If two machines try > to download the same distfile at the same time, they interfere with each > other. > [...] > (As an aside, it'd be great to see > /usr/portage moved into /var. One of my few true disappointments with > Gentoo is having to have /usr mounted read-write a lot of the time) you can set DISTDIR in /etc/make.conf to point to whatever you want. mine points to /var/distfiles. also, if you shared /usr/portage (and /var/distfiles, but not /var/db, etc.) via NFS and always emerged new packages on one machine first (so only it would do the fetching), then initiated the emerges on the other machine they would find the tarball and skip right to the unpack/compile stages. that's what i would do. Steven -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list