Dave Nebinger <dnebinger <at> joat.com> writes:
> > > and last run this daily on the server to keep it current? > > > emerge -uDva world && repcacheman > I forgot to mention that if your primary system is using the http replicator > then it shouldn't be necessary to run repcacheman after each emerge. > Repcacheman will a) ensure that packages retrieved via ftp are available > from the cache and b) remove packages from the cache that are too old. This > can easily be run as a monthly task if you primarily retrieve packages via > http and not ftp. Dave, Your last 2 emails have given me much to think about. Give me some time to finish the implementation, and digest all you have written. I guess I have to run emerge sync and emerge -uD world on each client still, but they use the http replicator instead of gentoo servers.... for both updating the portage/rsync files and downloading the distfiles (via the http replicator)? That's OK, I like keeping it manual for now. But I can rsync and 'emerge update' as many systems per day as I like now. On the server, the emerge sync is automated via the /etc/crontab entry: 30 1 * * * root emerge sync 2<&1 I still have to run 'emerge -uD world' on the server/workstation manually each day? -- [email protected] mailing list
