On Monday 20 October 2003 23:02, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Erwin Lang wrote: > > Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 08:47 schrieb Bj�rn Lindstr�m: > >>Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them > >>>from a mirror)? > >> > >>a) Why on earth would you do that? (Unless you're setting up a public > >>mirror, that's a good thing.) > > > > we have about 15 servers in our company, and I'm not interested in > > downloading the same packages from the internet for each server. If > > anybody knows a better way of solving this problem, please let me know. > > thank you! > > 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.
Seeing the thread was originally about a server environment, I want to add just one small possible problem in this scenario. What if two computers are trying to fetch the same file at the same time? What happens is that they both fail. Just playing the devil's advocate... for the most part, this situation is easy to avoid but one must be aware of it before actively avoiding... Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
