Greetings! So I think about to setup a local mirror for my favorite distro, because the number of hosts in my domains are growing by about 20 in August/September. And so they want Linux? They will get Gentoo ;-) (I think it a good way to suggest the user to use the "good" way of installing application. Means: ./configure ... make && make install :)
The number of clients are growing, and so do the number of requests for install/upgrade packages. So I think about a _complete_ mirror of my favorite distro... And I mean a _full_ mirror, not only via rsync -rlptDvz --delete rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/ ... But how should I mirror the packets in the distro? Via rsync rsync://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/gentoo-sources/ Is this enough ??? Should/must I modify the files to build the packages, so that they are downloaded from my local mirror instead of the "standard" (?) source from ibiblio.org ? When should I sync the packages to the local mirror? I think about setting up a local user, which subscribes to the gentoo-security list and automagical check for new messages and sync the mirror if a security messages arrives ... Comments? Hints? So long and many thanks in advance ... Andreas. P.S.: Because I live on a ISDN connection, I don't think its usefull if I made the local mirror open for everyone... -- Windows 95: A 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on top of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition.
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