I haven't tried this personally, but overall it looks like a simple matter. I believe you will need to set up a machine on your lan with rsync access to one of the public mirrors that offer rsync access such as http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/ and with either ftp or http server capabilities. Then on your local machines just change the /etc/make.conf and set the local server as only your GENTOO_MIRROR.
You will need something to support the file transfers, such as ftp or http, if that was your specific question. To be a mirror for the portage tree you would only need rsynce, but distfiles require either ftp or http. On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:14, Robert Cole wrote: > On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:13 am, Troy Dack wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:46, Robert Cole wrote: > > > I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple > > > machines without busting my bandwidth. > > > > > > The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that > > > an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say > > > nothing about that. > > > > A http server is only needed if you want to be a mirror for distfiles as > > well as the portage tree. > > That's exactly what I'm trying to do. :) > > > > The easiest way to share your portage tree and source files across > > multiple computers on a local network is with nfs. > > This doesn't work for my purposes but I'll keep it in mind. > > Do you know how to mirror the distfiles? > > Robert > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Ben M. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
