On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:08 am, William Kenworthy wrote: > Is that strictly needed? Try using a common NFS mounted distfile > directory. The first machine to request a tarball will load it into the > common directory and the rest get it from there. With a http server, > you will still have to get the tarballs in some way, and probably have a > lot of unwanted ones in the process if you "grab the lot"
I have business reasons for wanting to do this. I'm looking at deploying gentoo in business environments and machines have different needs for different software. Yes an NFS mirror would probably work ok after I built the distfiles directory up but what of updates? It an update of say openoffice was put into the tree I would end up downloading that once while I sat there. If I had a mirror going that wouldn't happen. Plus I'm looking at having this server mirror other things as well so the best fit in this case is an http mirror. Finding a good howto for that is proving to be troublesome however. Robert. p.s. in enviroments where bandwidth isn't an issue I would of course see about setting that site up as a public mirror. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
