Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Friday 18 January 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync
> >> /usr/portage/packages
> >> as well.
> >
> > This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_
> > distfiles available locall, you have to setup a mirror. AFAIK this
> > is also documented somewhere.
>
> No, I have a different situation.

Have you looked at the various PORTAGE_RSYNC_* options in 'man 5 
make.conf' ?

Alternatively you could just create a wrapper script (called say 
emerge-world) which does the correct combination of your custom 
commands, then run that from cron on the slaves

alan


> I many several identical machines.
> On the 'main' machine I have
> FEATURES="buildpkg"
> in /etc/make.conf
>
> Then, from time to time I synchronize the other machines.
> On these machines,
> SYNC="rsync://<my main machine>/gentoo-portage
>
> On the 'slaves' I do
> rm -f /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp*
> emerge --sync
>
> and I'd like this 'sync' to rsync /usr/portage/packages,
> as well, since lateron I do
>
> emerge --update --deep --usepkg world
>
> to avoid length compilation of packages on
> each machine.
>
> Currently I need
> /usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete
> --exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes rsync://<main
> machine>/gentoo-portage/ . in addition to
> emerge -sync
>
> I just wonder if it's possible to tell emerge somewhere to not
> exclude the 'packages' subdirectory.
>
> thanks for all your comments,
> Helmut.
>
>
> --
> Helmut Jarausch
>
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> RWTH - Aachen University
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany



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