On 04/05/11 19:53, KH wrote: > Am 05.04.2011 11:46, schrieb Jake Moe: >> On 04/05/11 18:14, KH wrote: >>> Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: >>>> On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: >>>> >>>>> I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you >>>>> trying to do something fancier than just serving out tarballs? >>>> Yes; I want it to mirror my portage tree and serve it to other boxes on >>>> the LAN. >>>> It used to do this well enough; I just want to get the permissions right. >>> Hi, >>> >>> why not using the handbook-way? >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml#doc_chap2 >>> I am doing it that way. >>> >>> Regards KH >> +1 >> >> I've got four boxes in my home network, and I have one pull down the >> updates, the other three sync with that one. >> >> I've also set up proftpd to allow anonymous read-only access to my >> /usr/portage/distfiles folder, so the other three can try to pull their >> packages from locally first as well, and if that box hasn't downloaded >> it yet, only then will they try to retrieve it from the Internet. See >> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_local_Portage_and_Package_Mirror >> for info. >> >> Jake Moe > Hi Jake Moe, > > for the distfiles http-replicator is great. Example: > Box one has the tarball. Box 2, 3 and 4 can download it as well. Box one > does not have the tarball. Box 2 may search for it, box one will > download it and give it to box 2. Then box 3 and 4 can download it from > box one as well. > > Regards KH Well, I suppose I'll have to look into that then, won't I? Thanks for the info.
Jake Moe
