Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server

["A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alex wrote:

> at home i have an router and 3 clients all running gentoo.
> This is just crying after an home rsync server like described here ->
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror
>
> After read this i thought if it wouldn't be better to just export
> "/usr/portage" via nfs to every client in my network, and run "emerge --sync" once
> 1 day on my router. This has the advantage that the clients don't need
> to waste the drive space for the ebuilds, and i can save time for
> downloading distfiles.
> The only thing on the client is to make an "emerge --metadata".
>
> Would this work or have i forgotten something?

Are you planning to build binary packages and distribute via NFS?

I ask because this would be fine for a network where all machines are
similar architectures. (I have one machine at home that is amd64 so I
can't distribute binary packages since I run a pure 64-bit system).


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