From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gev0U-0006SE-On for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:54:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9VErNtw018390; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:53:23 GMT Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9VEkIoM007750 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:46:19 GMT Received: (qmail 89957 invoked by uid 0); 31 Oct 2006 14:46:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Oct 2006 14:46:17 -0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:46:16 -0500 (EST) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] home rsync server In-Reply-To: <20061031133136.GA32194@zengers.de> Message-ID: References: <20061031133136.GA32194@zengers.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: b50e14e3-20c9-454f-b909-d394be6ff001 X-Archives-Hash: da8c1dee383f6212c11cff2ad2dac5c5 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). -- A -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list