On Thursday 13 February 2014 06:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 13/02/2014 02:40, Edward M wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Been busy learning Linux :-) got new email other was getting crowded. >> I'm planing on installing Gentoo on a few systems and I was wondering >> to save bandwidth, i could install portage to the other Gentoo installs >> from my system instead downloading from mirrors? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> > > Yes. > > The stage are just tarballs, download them once, copy to the new > location and unpack. > Same with the portage snapshots. > Same with the distfiles. > they are just files, copy them to where they need to be and use them, or > let emerge find them. > > Read the install docs first and learn more about how Linux works on the > command line. Pretty soon you'll find the bits where the manual says > "download such-and-such from this place" and you'll spot that if you > already have the downloadable file you can just use it already. > > >
If you have a common machine or NAS, put them there. You can mount /usr/portage to NAS / NFS. It does work.
