On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:40, Neil Walker wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > Is there an "offifial Gentoo method" for syncing installed packages on two > > machines? > > The simplest way is to use NFS and simply mount /usr/portage on the host > machine from the others. It works well here on a network of 6 machines. > > Alternatively, you can use rsync. There is a how-to somewhere on the > Gentoo website.
This is what I do. 1. echo 'GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://129.253.108.99/sync/";' >> /etc/make.conf 2. Set up Apache so that it serves the portage distfiles (actually) 3. Set up a Rsync cron job or something that just polls this box. No need to for a how to. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:54:15 up 1:33, 6 users, load average: 0.37, 0.89, 1.07 -- [email protected] mailing list
