On June 13, 2003 11:48 am, Cal Evans wrote: > Just curious, how did you setup a private rsync server?
it wasn't anything really impressive, i just installed gentoo-rsync-mirror and followed the instructions at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml and in my "rsync-gentoo-portage.sh" file, i put this as the "SRC" line: SRC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" and then have every computer on my lan sync with that box (including the server itself since i'm not sure it's safe to have the server dump everything right into the server's portage directory, so i have two "copies" of portage on the server: /usr/portage and /opt/gentoo-rsync/portage. if someone knows if i can/should amalgamate these, it would be appreciated). the only thing that makes it "private" is (a) i haven't applied to be part of the round-robin system, and (b) the server is firewalled off from the world, so the only machines that can see/use it are mine. so yeah, that's it. if anyone thinks that this may be bad, or detrimental to the community, please say so 'cause that's the last thing i want to do, i thought this would be best, 'cause it takes the load off the round-robin system and gives my lan a single hit, rather than multiple ones. -- don't go around saying the world owes you a living. the world owes you nothing. it was here first. - mark twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
