Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On 5/9/23 22:58, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
>> On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 22:54:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>>>    It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the
>>> quick-n-dirty solution like Alan suggested.  And I never have a need to
>>> have emerge run simultaneously on more than one machine.
>> It seems the simplest suitable solution for your needs.
>    And while we're at it, howsabout "emerge --sync" on one host, and then
> remote-mounting /var/db/repos/gentoo ?
>
Similarly - I was mounting a single location on moosefs (network 
filesystem) for ~15 hosts.  One host updates using --sync.  One 
buildhost for each architecture building packages.  Distfiles are 
handled the same way. Then "emerge -k" on the remainder checking for 
packages that needed an actual build.  If none, parallel merge (via 
ansible) or else single builds.  Resulting packages are also stored 
remotely per arch (various amd64, arm32, arm64 etc.)

Working well for a few years, but I am in the process of converting to 
nfs with a similar structure as I have decommissioned the moosefs system 
and many machines that are no longer needed.  A single machine will 
handle built packages, distfiles and repos which are mounted on the 
other systems via nfs. I will look into apt-cacher-ng as I was a fan of 
http-replicator until it was deprecated.

BillK