On Thursday 13 February 2014 11:41 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 13 February 2014 17:55:19 CET, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 13/02/2014 18:35, Edward M wrote: >>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:44:02 +0200 >>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Alan, >>> >>> I want to apologized I did not thanked you for the great advice you >>> gave me. I noticed this this morning when I re-read my emails. >>> >>> Best Regards. >> >> >> No problem. Come check my inbox sometime, any given mail stands a 1 in >> 3 >> chance of being answered at all :-) >> >> I see earlier in the thread someone mentioned sharing the portage tree >> over NFS. Now this is by far the best solution of all in terms of >> outright performance; but be warned up front - there are pitfalls. >> >> NFS is nothing like setting up a Windows share, and there's nothing >> about it that just magically works. Folks new to Linux often have heaps >> of trouble with it (mostly because NFS assumes you are going to do a >> whole lot of heavy lifting yourself and you have already dealt with the >> tricky issue of keeping user accounts in sync, and permission woes). So >> by all means use NFS, just know upfront the learning curve is steepish, >> and the good folks on this list can give tons of good advice as well as >> get you through the arcane basics :-) > > If you want to do NFS. Let us know. > It can be done easier then Alan makes out. But you then need to ensure only > your machines are connected to the network. > > In simple terms: > Configure NFS to allow every user from any machine (or network ip range) has > access to the files. The NFS server can be told to replace any connecting > user with a single user on the server. > > That is what I do. With a good firewall preventing non wired owned machines > to have any access. > > -- > Joost >
My favorite firewall rule to do this don't restrict any kind of traffic between own network and filter the rest. Use ipset. Very easy.
