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* [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
@ 2005-07-27 20:44 Alexander Skwar
  2005-07-27 20:55 ` Wade Brown
  2005-07-27 22:30 ` Justin Patrin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Skwar @ 2005-07-27 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hello.

I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want
to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a "low end" box and since
my main system is not "low end" :), I'd like to compile as much as
possible on the "big" server and then later copy (or whatever) the
compiled packages over to the slower system.

Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always.

What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's
already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would
of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good
documentation.

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
-- 
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
		-- Grace Murray Hopper
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
  2005-07-27 20:44 [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host Alexander Skwar
@ 2005-07-27 20:55 ` Wade Brown
  2005-07-27 22:16   ` Alexander Skwar
  2005-07-27 22:30 ` Justin Patrin
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Wade Brown @ 2005-07-27 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Using FEATURES="buildpkg" is always a great place to start on your
'big' system.  For more detail than that (all one lines of it), check
the gentoo-wiki site, it's full of useful information, well,
sometimes.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host

On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want
> to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a "low end" box and since
> my main system is not "low end" :), I'd like to compile as much as
> possible on the "big" server and then later copy (or whatever) the
> compiled packages over to the slower system.
> 
> Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always.
> 
> What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's
> already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would
> of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good
> documentation.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alexander Skwar
> --
> It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
>                 -- Grace Murray Hopper
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
>

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
  2005-07-27 20:55 ` Wade Brown
@ 2005-07-27 22:16   ` Alexander Skwar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Skwar @ 2005-07-27 22:16 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Wade Brown schrieb:

> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host

Thanks. Reading it right now.

I don't quite get this, though. At "2.5 Create cron scripts to keep
the build area up to date" (http://shink.de/kwqygt) it is written:

     mount -t nfs buildHost:/usr/portage/distfiles ${arch}/usr/portage/distfiles

Why is /usr/portage/distfiles mounted via NFS? I understood it so,
that the /mnt/gentoo/Maintenance script is supposed to be run on the build
host. No? If not wrong, why NFS? Wouldn't it be sufficient and faster to use
a "bind" mount?

     mount -o bind /usr/portage/distfiles ${arch}/usr/portage/distfiles

Regards,

Alexander Skwar
-- 
The University of California Bears announced the signing of Reggie
Philbin to a letter of intent to attend Cal next Fall.  Philbin is said
to make up for no talent by cheating well.  Says Philbin of his decision
to attend Cal, "I'm in it for the free ride."
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
  2005-07-27 20:44 [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host Alexander Skwar
  2005-07-27 20:55 ` Wade Brown
@ 2005-07-27 22:30 ` Justin Patrin
  2005-07-28 16:05   ` Lucien D.
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Justin Patrin @ 2005-07-27 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want
> to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a "low end" box and since
> my main system is not "low end" :), I'd like to compile as much as
> possible on the "big" server and then later copy (or whatever) the
> compiled packages over to the slower system.
> 
> Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always.
> 
> What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's
> already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would
> of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good
> documentation.
> 

Remember that you can always set up distcc. This way your laptop does
its normal compiles and you can distribute lots of the compiling load
to the big server.

-- 
Justin Patrin

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
  2005-07-27 22:30 ` Justin Patrin
@ 2005-07-28 16:05   ` Lucien D.
  2005-07-29 15:54     ` Alexander Skwar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Lucien D. @ 2005-07-28 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 7/27/05, Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want
> > to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a "low end" box and since
> > my main system is not "low end" :), I'd like to compile as much as
> > possible on the "big" server and then later copy (or whatever) the
> > compiled packages over to the slower system.
> >
> > Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always.
> >
> > What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's
> > already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would
> > of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good
> > documentation.
> >
> 
> Remember that you can always set up distcc. This way your laptop does
> its normal compiles and you can distribute lots of the compiling load
> to the big server.
> 
I've had good luck using distcc to speed up my p3 450's builds.. until
it fried that is...

However, you might be better off doing a hybrid of the two, especially
when it comes to compiling big packages, since there are some that
explicitly disable using distcc.

You might want to build the packages exclusively on your more powerful
computer for that one.  Whichever you choose there is plenty of
documentation for either.
> --
> Justin Patrin
> 
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> 
>

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
  2005-07-28 16:05   ` Lucien D.
@ 2005-07-29 15:54     ` Alexander Skwar
  2005-07-29 16:16       ` Lucien D.
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Skwar @ 2005-07-29 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Lucien D. schrieb:

> computer for that one.  Whichever you choose there is plenty of
> documentation for either.

Care to point me to one you like especially well? :)

Alexander Skwar
-- 
The Bene Gesserit tell no casual lies.  Truth serves us better.

  -- BENE GESSERIT CODA
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
  2005-07-29 15:54     ` Alexander Skwar
@ 2005-07-29 16:16       ` Lucien D.
  2005-07-29 21:29         ` Alexander Skwar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Lucien D. @ 2005-07-29 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 7/29/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> Lucien D. schrieb:
> 
> > computer for that one.  Whichever you choose there is plenty of
> > documentation for either.
> 
> Care to point me to one you like especially well? :)

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml

This had all the info that I needed to get things working

I haven't had much experience building packages on one machine for
another, but that site mentioned in an earlier post
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host) seems to be a good
place to look.  If you aren't using LVM like the author is and can't
easily create a seperate filesystem for building you may look into
setting up a chroot enviroment.  I've seen it suggested for situations
such are yours, however, I'm definitely not the one to be giving
advice on it, there are plenty of people here far more qualified than
me.

HTH
Lucien


> 
> Alexander Skwar
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> The Bene Gesserit tell no casual lies.  Truth serves us better.
> 
>   -- BENE GESSERIT CODA
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> 
>

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for "slow" system on a "big" host
  2005-07-29 16:16       ` Lucien D.
@ 2005-07-29 21:29         ` Alexander Skwar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Skwar @ 2005-07-29 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Lucien D. schrieb:
> On 7/29/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>> Lucien D. schrieb:
>> 
>> > computer for that one.  Whichever you choose there is plenty of
>> > documentation for either.
>> 
>> Care to point me to one you like especially well? :)
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
> 
> This had all the info that I needed to get things working
> 
> I haven't had much experience building packages on one machine for
> another, but that site mentioned in an earlier post
> (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host) seems to be a good
> place to look.

Yep, it really does. As you might have seen, I've got a question
regarding the Howto. Basically, I wonder why it's mounting a
directory on the server from the server via NFS and not using
a bind mount.

Any idea?

>  If you aren't using LVM

I will certainly use LVM. If possible, also for root (there's
a howto for root lvm on gentoo-wiki.com, IIRC). And I'm also using
LVM on the server - LVM just totally rocks :)

Alexander Skwar
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