Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 06:21:27PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > > The reference to a host makes me think Walter wants one machne to hold > the distfiles for all on the network. Correct. > I use apt-cacher-ng for this and it does what you

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-db/mysql fails to build, more than one version.

2023-09-04 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Sun, 2023-09-03 at 09:35 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Anyone else having this?  Is this mysql or is something else causing >> this and mysql is just a symptom?  Given two versions are failing to >> build, is kinda interesting.  > https://bugs.gentoo.org/912797 > > > > A

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Sept 2023 at 22:02, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm a GMail user also. Sadly you'll want to not only bottom post, but also > select all text you're responding to, remove formatting (Ctrl-V) and then > type your response or you'll be down voted for responding in HTML. > > I hate it also, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 12:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 8:26 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:49:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > Quick n dirty solution: >> > >> > put all distfiles on a central server >> > FS mount that remote dir to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 8:26 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:49:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Quick n dirty solution: > > > > put all distfiles on a central server > > FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts > > That's what I used to do, but had

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:49:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Quick n dirty solution: > > put all distfiles on a central server > FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts That's what I used to do, but had problems when downloading the same file from to clients at once. BTW

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Quick n dirty solution: put all distfiles on a central server FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts Alan On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 7:21 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are > > all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to > > have a client first check the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Michael
On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are > all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to have > a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory for a > source tarball

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: attic

2023-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 2:36 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 4:38 AM William Kenworthy > wrote: > > > > On 4/9/23 16:04, Nuno Silva wrote: > > > > > > (But note that Rich was suggesting using the *search* feature of the > > > gitweb interface, which, in this case, also finds the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: attic

2023-09-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 4:38 AM William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 4/9/23 16:04, Nuno Silva wrote: > > > > (But note that Rich was suggesting using the *search* feature of the > > gitweb interface, which, in this case, also finds the same topmost > > commit if I search for "reedsolomon".) > > > tkx,

[gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to have a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory for a source tarball file. If not found, then fail over to another mirror as per

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: attic

2023-09-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 4/9/23 16:04, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2023-09-04, William Kenworthy wrote: On 3/9/23 18:29, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael wrote: On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I

[gentoo-user] Re: attic

2023-09-04 Thread Nuno Silva
On 2023-09-04, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 3/9/23 18:29, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael wrote: >>> On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant find it on google