[gentoo-server] home rsync server

[gentoo-server] home rsync server

[Alex]

Hi,

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?

greetz
alex

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Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server

[Karl Hiramoto]

Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> greetz
> alex
>
>   
This is what I do,   NFS /usr/portage    as you say it works a lot 
better for speeding up download of distfiles and saves a lot of bandwith 
and space. 

NFS though you would only want to use in a trusted environment, or 
restrict who has write access to the NFS..

The rsync mirror method can be used by untrusted clients.

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Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server

[Jan Meier]

Hi,

Am Dienstag 31 Oktober 2006 14:31 schrieb Alex:
> 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?

This would work like a charm :)

Regards

Jan
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Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server

[Alex]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:39:23PM +0100, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
> NFS though you would only want to use in a trusted environment, or 
> restrict who has write access to the NFS..
> 
> The rsync mirror method can be used by untrusted clients.

yeah ur right.
i will kepp this in mind, but for my home lan it's enough ;-)

greetz
alex
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Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server

[Alex]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:31:36PM +0100, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?

thx for your replys.                                                                                                                           
i'm sry i misted this ->                                                                                                                       
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Using_a_shared_portage_via_NFS                                                                                    
that's how i will do it know.                                                                                                                 

greetz
alex


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Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server

[A. Khattri]

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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Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server

[Alex]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:46:16AM -0500, A. Khattri wrote:
>
> 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).
> 

nope it's just to distribute portage-tree and distfiles.
i have the same problem, i use different architectures.

greetz
alex

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