----- Original Message ----
> From: Dale <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 12:20:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...
>
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:
> >
> >
> >> If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM,
> >> takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what
> >> you are hosting from what you are using. Otherwise you end up in the
> >> situation that you have started one system update (or software
> >> install), have a build failure for whatever reason, and then can't
> >> complete the same one due to changes in the local copy of portage.
> >>
> > You can still use emerge -sync instead of a home brewed script. In make
> > conf, set SYNC to localhost, then in your cron job, do
> >
> > SYNC="some gentoo rsync mirror" emerge --sync
> >
> >
> >> So, even if your system fell into the first situation - where it is
> >> fast enough
> >> - then I would still recommend doing the little extra to run as the
> >> second situation. It's just far easier to maintain.
> >>
> > I've been using a single portage tree to serve a LAN and for use by the
> > host for years with no hint of any of the problems you suggest. I just
> > make sure the cron job on the server syncs earlier than the rest of the
> > LAN and everything is up to date.
> >
> >
>
> I used to have four computers a good while back. Back then, I synced my
> main
>rig then synced the others off it. This was several years ago. I don't use
>a
>cron job or anything to do this, just some old fashioned typing. I don't
>recall ever having trouble with it syncing to my main rig. Did I mention it
>was a very old Compaq 200MHz CPU machine with a whopping 128MBs of ram?
>Thing
>looks like a filing cabinet.
>
> To me, it seems the OP is making something complicated when it is just not
>needed. If you want to use cron jobs, set the main rig to sync a hour before
>the others would be set to sync against it. If the rig that syncs to Gentoo
>servers is to slow, set them two hours apart. From my understanding, you get
>the same tree all the way around.
>
> Giving some more thought, I once put /usr/portage on nfs. I sync once and
> all
>the systems used the same copy of the tree. The other way worked out to be
>easier tho. I seem to recall the need for running emerge --metadata too.
>That
>took a while on the old Compaq. lol
>
And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the systems -
update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine & dandy if that is your
process - but it's not mine. I may update my laptop twice as often as the other
two, especially if I want to play with some software or try something out, or
fix a bug, or get a later version of KDE. The server gets updated may be once a
month, while the laptop is either once a month or at whim when I want something
that just came out.
It's not harder to do it this way, just a different method. The original rsync
script worked perfectly fine; the broken update I did when I lost it is what
started this whole thread.
As the old saying goes - Different Strokes for Different Folks.
Ben
