Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> [14-01-11 22:16]: > On 11/01/2014 22:44, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> [14-01-11 21:16]: > >> On 11/01/2014 22:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> suppose I would do an eix-sync on two different computers of different > >>> platforms -- say AMR and an ordinary PC. > >>> > >>> Are the downloaded data identical? > >> > >> the portage tree is identical everywhere > >> > >> the overlays that layman uses are identical everywhere, but possibly not > >> identical between your two hosts. I can easily imagine you have > >> different overlays between them, and no guarantee they will always be > >> the same. > >> > >> I consider your question to be fragile and possibly quite dangerous. > >> What are you trying to accomplish? > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Alan McKinnon > >> alan.mckin...@gmail.com > >> > >> > > Hi Alan, > > > > thanks for your reply. > > > > I want to lower the load on the official gentoo server(s). > > > > When the log of an eix-sync process is printed on the console, it is > > said, that it is *suggested* (hrrm), to only sinc once a day. Since > > the ARM and the PC both use the same DSL line, both syncs are seen by > > the gentoo server(s) as it came from the same IP (the one of my ISP). > > In the worst case, one could be blacklisted...which I dont want to be. > > I wouldn't worry about that at all. > > Gentoo infra is vastly more resilient than that, and there are several > official hosts in some sort of cluster arrangement. I have minimally 4 > gentoo hosts here at home and many many times I've run --sync > simultaneously on all of them 5-10 times a day, with not a peep out of > infra. I don't do this deliberately, sometimes I forget just how > powerful clusterssh can be :-) > > Plus our ftp server at work is a mirror for all of ZA with no special > permissions, it syncs every hour. > > The message in --sync is, I believe, a holdover from long long ago that > hasn't been valid for years. But it's left to discourage abuse. What you > are doing is not abuse, it's normal activity. Many of us here have > multiple gentoo installs. > > If you want to reduce the data downloaded, then by all means configure > rsyncd to share the tree on the PC, and point the ARM to that. Don't > worry about overlays, the amount of changed data from them is usually > too small to worry about. > > > > > > > > > Especially with the ARM I need to sync once a day, since I have to > > limit the amount of software to be recompiled/updated after each sync > > since the ARM is not *that* fast (for example a kernel compilation > > take ~8h). Ah, by the way: I quit crosscompilation, distcc and > > such... Both successfully screwed up my gentoos on the ARM. > > > > > > t regards, > > mcc > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com >
Hi Alan, thanks a lot for the good news -- Gentoo is such an nice thing and I didn't want to play the bad guy. Best regards, mcc
