Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirroring

[Jonathan Wright <mail@djnauk.co.uk>]

Matthias Bethke wrote:
> I just set up a local rsync mirror using app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror.
> Now I'm just wondering if it's necessary to do it like suggested and put
> a separate portage tree under /opt? I mean, apart from syncing to the
> official Gentoo mirrors it's read-only anyway, so pointing my rsync
> daemon to /usr/portage should be fine, shouldn't it?
> 
> cheers!
> 	Matthias

I've been syncing a few machines via /usr/portage without a problem. At 
least with that method you only need to perform one sync on the main 
machine and then let the others sync off it.

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