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

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

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Quick n dirty solution:

put all distfiles on a central server
FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts

Alan

On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 7:21 PM Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
>
> > On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> > >   I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are
> > > all-or-nothing.  In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to
> > > have a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory
> > > for a source tarball file.  If not found, then fail over to another
> > > mirror as per GENTOO_MIRRORS in /etc/portage/make.conf.  This would
> > > require emerge doing the lookup and potential failover for each file.
> > >  Is this possible?
> >
> > Unless I misunderstand what you're asking, isn't this what takes place
> > anyway?
>
> The reference to a host makes me think Walter wants one machne to hold
> the distfiles for all on the network.
>
> > PS. Is http_replicator still available/maintained?  I see the wiki
> > mentions apt-cacher-ng for local distfiles cache.
>
> I use apt-cacher-ng for this and it does what you are looking for.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant.
>


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Alan McKinnon
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