Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Sunday 21 August 2011 02:08:51 Paul Hartman wrote:

> Could I just export the entire laptop - everything from the root
> directory and below - and chroot into that over the network? Then I
> wouldn't even need to emerge -k...

No, I tried that and got myself tied in knots - well, actually it was the 
whole portage tree that I exported, not the entire system. I forget what 
went wrong now, but it's definitely cleaner to tell the server to build the 
packages and the client to install from them. The emerge -k step is quick 
too, and you have the advantage that you can see whether the packages are 
actually there, unless you've switched colours off or not specified -v. (I 
once found that they weren't there, which prompted me to go looking for the 
config problem. Like Dale, I'm quite a good tester!)

You just have to make sure that the chroot is identical to the client.

-- 
Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23