Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
Lucien D. schrieb: computer for that one. Whichever you choose there is plenty of documentation for either. Care to point me to one you like especially well? :) Alexander Skwar -- The Bene Gesserit tell no casual lies. Truth serves us better. -- BENE GESSERIT CODA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
Lucien D. schrieb: On 7/29/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucien D. schrieb: computer for that one. Whichever you choose there is plenty of documentation for either. Care to point me to one you like especially well? :) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml This had all the info that I needed to get things working I haven't had much experience building packages on one machine for another, but that site mentioned in an earlier post (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host) seems to be a good place to look. Yep, it really does. As you might have seen, I've got a question regarding the Howto. Basically, I wonder why it's mounting a directory on the server from the server via NFS and not using a bind mount. Any idea? If you aren't using LVM I will certainly use LVM. If possible, also for root (there's a howto for root lvm on gentoo-wiki.com, IIRC). And I'm also using LVM on the server - LVM just totally rocks :) Alexander Skwar -- The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. -- Sophocles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
On 7/27/05, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a low end box and since my main system is not low end :), I'd like to compile as much as possible on the big server and then later copy (or whatever) the compiled packages over to the slower system. Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always. What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good documentation. Remember that you can always set up distcc. This way your laptop does its normal compiles and you can distribute lots of the compiling load to the big server. I've had good luck using distcc to speed up my p3 450's builds.. until it fried that is... However, you might be better off doing a hybrid of the two, especially when it comes to compiling big packages, since there are some that explicitly disable using distcc. You might want to build the packages exclusively on your more powerful computer for that one. Whichever you choose there is plenty of documentation for either. -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
Hello. I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a low end box and since my main system is not low end :), I'd like to compile as much as possible on the big server and then later copy (or whatever) the compiled packages over to the slower system. Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always. What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good documentation. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
Using FEATURES=buildpkg is always a great place to start on your 'big' system. For more detail than that (all one lines of it), check the gentoo-wiki site, it's full of useful information, well, sometimes. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a low end box and since my main system is not low end :), I'd like to compile as much as possible on the big server and then later copy (or whatever) the compiled packages over to the slower system. Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always. What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good documentation. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
Wade Brown schrieb:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host
Thanks. Reading it right now.
I don't quite get this, though. At 2.5 Create cron scripts to keep
the build area up to date (http://shink.de/kwqygt) it is written:
mount -t nfs buildHost:/usr/portage/distfiles ${arch}/usr/portage/distfiles
Why is /usr/portage/distfiles mounted via NFS? I understood it so,
that the /mnt/gentoo/Maintenance script is supposed to be run on the build
host. No? If not wrong, why NFS? Wouldn't it be sufficient and faster to use
a bind mount?
mount -o bind /usr/portage/distfiles ${arch}/usr/portage/distfiles
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Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a low end box and since my main system is not low end :), I'd like to compile as much as possible on the big server and then later copy (or whatever) the compiled packages over to the slower system. Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always. What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good documentation. Remember that you can always set up distcc. This way your laptop does its normal compiles and you can distribute lots of the compiling load to the big server. -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
