One solution to this issue is to use the faster server as a binary host for the slower one. I was able to do something similar with a slow laptop and a fast desktop machine. I'm not in front of my gentoo machine right now, so I can't provide the exact details, but it goes something like this:
On the fast machine (you can optionally do all of this inside a chroot): 1) set-up an ftp server and create a new user for the slower machine to use 2) in make.conf, set PKGDIR to a directory accessible to the ftp user created above 3) for each package you want to install on the slow machine, run: # emerge -B <package name> (Also, in make.conf, you can add "buildpkg" in FEATURES to always build binary packages whenever you emerge something.) On the slow machine: 1) in make.conf, add "getbinpkg" to FEATURES 2) in make.conf, set PORTAGE_BINHOST to "ftp://login:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/binpkgs" where "fastmachine" is the address of the fast machine used to build the packages. 3) then try to emerge the package on the slow machine This setup worked for me, but, of course, YMMV Matt On 5/4/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello List, I've been trying to upgrade an really old machine to the new gcc, and so, following the guide, I'm at the "emerge --oneshot sys-libs/libstdc++-v3" step. This old hardware suits my needs for a web server and MySQL mirror, but that's about the charge it can handle, so, I've set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 15, I don't mind if it take a whole month to compile, but it must be responsive to other processes all the time. What I've noticed is that the process is using nice 0 (that pretty much makes the machine unusable), and distcc is not working, if it was, I'm pretty sure the time would reduce greatly because other emerge operations that use it are getting super fast responses thanks to the distcc and ccache wonders (my host is already upgraded). Is there a way to compile this or migrate GCC with binary packages or something like it? I have compatible CHOSTs flags on both machines and the other one is a fast server. Any advice would be great. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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