Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Feature request

[Scott Taylor <security@303underground.com>]

I've even got a dedicated cache appliance for http, but files that had
been requested through ftp aren't cached there. I think probably the
first stopgap that i'd apply would be to comment out the line that
parses the "nomirror" option. If its used to keep files from being
pushed onto the rotation servers, great... but its an annoyance within
my network. Then i'd see about making my own server the first in the
list of sourceforge mirrors, followed by a mirror that i know works
better for me. Perhaps the mirrorselect tool could automatically check
for good sf.net servers too. For that matter, I'd quite like to see a
fill-in-the-blank line plus the ability to choose the order from within
mirrorselect... perhaps even a order of preference that round-robins
equally weighted servers. 

On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 13:24, Paul de Vrieze wrote:

> A stopgap that you could use is to install squid on the server node. Use it as 
> a emerge only proxy. However you MUST make some config changes. Change the 
> used real memory to a low value as it will not have any point for portage 
> (you'll not download things again and again), but REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT
> is to set the 
> 
> maximum size of cached items
> 
> to something that is in the 100 or even 200 mb range. (Standard is 1 mb or 
> something like that, quite pointless for portage). If you give your caching 
> proxy enough cache space it will be quite effective, and it even saves you 
> maintaining the distfiles dir. It also stops the need for different schemes 
> for allowing distfile requests from any host to get onto the master cache.
> 
> Paul
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Scott Taylor - <security@303underground.com> 

BOFH Excuse #448:

vi needs to be upgraded to vii

    


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