On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:03:10 +0100 eroen <er...@falcon.eroen.eu> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:40:22 -0800, Edward M > <edwardm.gentoo.j...@live.com> 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! > > Setting up a local rsync mirror for a portage tree is fairly simple, > you share the working tree at /usr/portage on a local server to > the network and make sure the server is up-to-date before syncing > other clients to it. This is documented in [1]. After setting up the > mirror, you only need to sync-uri in /etc/portage/repos.conf on the > other (local) clients. See portage(5)[2], section 'repos.conf' and > make.conf(5)[3], section 'SYNC' for details on client configuration. > Please *do* read those sections, as much of the information on the > wiki regarding the SYNC variable is outdated. > > For sharing distfiles between hosts, a http server sharing the > distfiles folder and prepending the server's uri to GENTOO_MIRRORS in > make.conf[3] might be sufficient for your needs. If the installs are > not homogenous, you can even set up http servers on all of them, and > add all the other local hosts to GENTOO_MIRRORS. > > You might want to skim through the FEATURES section in make.conf(5)[3] > for using local distfiles mirrors, as some of them can improve the > usefulness of the mirror significantly. > > NFS is another possibility for both portage tree and distfiles and can > reduce total disk space needs, but it incurs significant network > latency which is especially noticeable for portage trees. I use it > myself for virtual machines, but would not suggest it for use over a > physical network. Also note that portage has PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS[3] as > an alternative to GENTOO_MIRRORS for eg. read-only *mounted* network > shares which may provide some extra flexibility. > > 1: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Rsync#Setting_up_your_own_local_rsync_mirror > 2: https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html 3: > https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/make.conf.5.html > Thank you for suppling great lesson and links. I will go over the sections you mentioned and take notes. I will be having fun this weekend...configuring Gentoo, with all the great knowledge i was given from kind Gentoo users. Thanks again. Best regards, Ed -- Learing Linux with Gentoo to earn LPIC1.
