Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, just to let you know that approach below works for me. I modified it slightly in that I add mount --bind /usr/portage /mnt/other/usr/portage to belows cmd list as machine A and B will always be synchronized. Thanks a lot, Thomas Am 15.12.2010 10:56, schrieb YoYo Siska: On Wed, Dec 15,

[gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ? The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad core CPU - machine B is equipped with an N330 Atom-CPU - machine A is doing the system update on a local chroot-environment for machine B and generates binary packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:15:12AM +0100, Thomas Drueke wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ? The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad core CPU - machine B is equipped with an N330 Atom-CPU - machine A is doing the system update on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas Drueke
Interesting approach. I'll give that a try. Thanks, Thomas Am 15.12.2010 10:56, schrieb YoYo Siska: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:15:12AM +0100, Thomas Drueke wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ? The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Yes, I have a N330 (zotec ION) with 3G ram, no local storage and swap over nbd with portage and build area in /tmp which itself is on tmpfs. Some packages (gcc and glibc in particular) require a lot of ram and tmpfs to emerge so sometimes I have to disable tmpfs and use nfs storage. Because