On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public > Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files > that some client has already downloaded are also available for every > other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. > > The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might > attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to > start your updates at different times to avoid this.
Yes, that's how I understood it, but I was looking ahead to a time when the server might not be running Gentoo, in which case I wanted a mechanism to obtain the distfiles to put on the server. -- Rgds Peter
