Not convinced.
Either I have to have a "per client" ../distfiles directory on the nfs
server wich creates an enormous redundancy on that large harddisk. (Keeping
13 ../distfiles directories. 12 clients and the local one for the nfs
server.)
Or, I share the single ../distfiles directory between all 13 computers,
with all potential concurrency problems that would bring in to the soup.
(Oh, what a nightmare that may become. ;-)
Marius's emerge wrapper is constructive. I just can't understand why it
would be so difficult to create a flag for this in make.conf. The default
value would typically be to keep the distfiles.
As Daniel recently said at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/12236/ , "The goal of
Gentoo is to design tools and systems that allow a user to do their work
pleasantly and efficiently as possible, as *they* see fit."
And also "If the tool forces the user to do things a particular way, then
the tool is working against, rather than for, the user."
Biker
Terry Churchill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Schaffter/CDS/CG/CAPITAL)
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]
Cleaning up ../distfiles from make.conf
23-09-2003 14:43
Please respond to
gentoo-user
My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 01:36PM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled:
> But if I intend to keep a local Gentoo mirror in my little network? (I
*do*
> have a PC with a large harddisk. Well, even two, actually. ;-)
>
> Then I may need to keep the distfiles on my Gentoo Gateway server, but I
> could use and throw away the distfiles on my 'Client' PCs. (*If* the
client
> PCs could be told to throw them away, that is.)
Simply mount /var/portage/distfiles/ via nfs on the clients. There's no
need
to throw any distfiles away then.
HTH
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