On 14/02/14 14:59, Edward M wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:55:19 +0200 > 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 :-) > > > Thank you for this valuable advice. > I have been doing some research using bing and google and I found some > howtos,docs setting up NFS portage. hope they work. thanks again >
An easier method than NFS that avoids some of the pitfalls is http-replicator. Works like an upstream mirror - the first request causes the files to be downloaded to the cache and supplied to the host - then the next host to need the same files gets served from the cache. Also handles parallel requests unlike NFS. BillK
