On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alex wrote: > at home i have an router and 3 clients all running gentoo. > This is just crying after an home rsync server like described here -> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror > > After read this i thought if it wouldn't be better to just export > "/usr/portage" via nfs to every client in my network, and run "emerge --sync" > once > 1 day on my router. This has the advantage that the clients don't need > to waste the drive space for the ebuilds, and i can save time for > downloading distfiles. > The only thing on the client is to make an "emerge --metadata". > > Would this work or have i forgotten something?
Are you planning to build binary packages and distribute via NFS? I ask because this would be fine for a network where all machines are similar architectures. (I have one machine at home that is amd64 so I can't distribute binary packages since I run a pure 64-bit system). -- A -- [email protected] mailing list
