Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and best of all, its in potage and there is a gentoo wiki doc on how to set it up. Nice!
BillK * net-proxy/http-replicator Latest version available: 3.0 Latest version installed: 3.0 Size of downloaded files: 19 kB Homepage: http://gertjan.freezope.org/replicator/ Description: Proxy cache for Gentoo packages License: GPL-2 On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 20:22 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > OTOH your approach has problems in that not all files reside on gentoo ... > > > > > Certainly, like most of linux, there is more than one way to do it. :-) > > That's why I like Linux ;-) > > > Best regards, > Norberto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list