Hi! Was Portage developed to work with a /usr/portage directory mounted from another computer with NFS or SMB? I did it and it worked.
I thought this way could be easier than rsync when you have maybe two or three computer working with the same network-shared directory. But I noticed a poor performance even when the newtwork connection is very good. And I get messages like this: ######################################################## jgm jgm # emerge -upDv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies -QA Notice: USE Flag 'userland_Darwin' not in IUSE for dev-lang/perl-5.8.7 \QA Notice: USE Flag 'elibc_uclibc' not in IUSE for sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5-r1 QA Notice: USE Flag 'elibc_uclibc' not in IUSE for sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5 QA Notice: USE Flag 'userland_Darwin' not in IUSE for sys-devel/libperl-5.8.7 -QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0 QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0 QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11 QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11 QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r1 QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r1 [...] ######################################################## What's wrong? Maybe I should think seriously about to mirror the portage directory with rsync? Is not this a good way? I have another situation. I have a Gentoo Linux running as a server. It runs also another linux inside thanks to UserMode-Linux. To avoid having two portage directories, I use hostfs (UML stuff) to share the portage between the two computers but in the Linux one where the portage is not, I get the same errors messages and the performance is so slow too! Thanks, :). -- Jes_s Garc_a Crespo (aka Sevein) http://www.sevein.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key ID: E2DB17E8 (pgp.escomposlinux.org) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
