On 7/27/05, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
