On 15:41 Tue 01 Feb , Joshua Murphy wrote: > > The trick I've been using for... a couple years now, across various > machines (no cron involved), is syncing one box that shares portage > *and* my distfiles on nfs, portage R/O, distfiles R/W, then when it's > done syncing and starts its own metadata update, hop across all the > others and do an emerge --metadata.
>From the emerge man page: "In versions of portage >=2.1.5 the --metadata action is totally unnecessary unless the user has enabled FEATURES="metadata-trasfer" in make.conf(5)." Could mean that you can skip this --metadata step on your other machines? Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998
