On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:31:06 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > > A more reliable method, assuming you have the drive space, is to add > > buildpkg to FEATURES in make.conf. Then emerge will automatically > > build a package when installing a package. It also means the package > > is verified, because ebuild builds it then installs from the package > > it just built, not the files in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR. > OK, so I can run distccd on a group of gentoo boxes (AMD athlons/P3/P4) > and build one set of binaries to distribute to the others, via cron > scheduling. They would point to the one (quickpkg)master > (cron-based-rsync)? Any ideas/packages for this, so I don't botch it?
I wouldn't use quickpkg for this, because it uses the files on your filesystem, including any modified config files. Use emerge --buildpkg on the master box and emerge --usepkg on the others, with all of them sharing a common PKGDIR. -- Neil Bothwick The computer revolution is over. The computers won.
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