> There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and > on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. > > If you wrote a p2p wrapper for portage, there would be many thanking you - > there's not one I'm aware of. > > Check the archives and the forums (there's one recent HOWTO under > 'Documentation, Tips & Tricks') for more specifics.
Thanks for all the pointers. * I checked out the HOWTO in the forum. The Proxy idea is good, but not implementable in my scenario. * Thinking about it, NFS would be a pain for end users. They have re-compile their kernels and all. * I'm thinking of a centralized way to do stuff which would not put too much of a burden on end users. So that leaves me with SMB (people already have their samba servers up to recv net sends from other window machines). * The other would be, to couple the Gentoo Portage with fOOgle (an FTP Indexing engine that I wrote). So all those who want the central server to leach up their distfiles would use a web interface to make an entry into fOOgle's FTP server database. I think I'll complete the script in a day or two, and will post it here. Nandz. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
