Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> For my LAN, I have 1 computer that has /usr/portage shared via NFS. On
> all the other computers, I have this NFS share mounted as
> /usr/portage. I have a cron job that runs every night that does
> 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -uDf world' on the main computer. This way,
> they all have access to the same portage tree and the same
> distfiles. Also, if I want to install a new package on one of the
> computers, If I download it on any one of the other computers, it
> saves it to the shared /usr/portage/distfiles, so all the other
> computers have access to it.

If the machines are similar enough, you can even share the binary
packages in /usr/portage/packages� That would save you some CPU cycles.

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