On 1/30/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can remember that export the portage dir for other host wasn't supported and can cause problems.... Or did I missread/misinterpert the documentation?On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one portage
> tree on one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with different
> world files. Will several parallel "emerge --fetchonly" processes on
> those different boxes still be safe?
Yes, because portage uses lockfiles in $DISTDIR. Once one emerge begins
downloading a file, any others wanting that file will wait for it.
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Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
H. van Wees
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