On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:50:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I already use a fairly complicate solution with emerge -pvf and wget in > a cron on one of the fileservers, but it's getting cumbersome. And I'd > rather not maintain an entire gentoo install on a server simply to act > as a proxy. Would I be right in saying that I'd have to keep > the "proxy" machine up to date to avoid the inevitable blockers that > will happen in short order if I don't? > > I've been looking into kashani's suggestion of http-replicator, this > might be a good interim solution till I can come up with something > better suited to our needs.
I was suggesting the emerge -uDNf world in combination in http-replicator. The first request forces http-replicator to download the files, all other request for those files are then handled locally. So if you run this on a suitable cross-section of machines overnight, http-replicator's cache will be primed by the time you stumble bleary-eyed into the office. If all your machines run a similar mix of software, say KDE desktops, you only need to run the cron task on one of them. I use a slightly different approach here, with an NFS mounted $DISTDIR for all machines and one of them doing emerge -f world each morning. it's simpler to set up that http-replicator but is less scalable since you'll get problems if one machines tries to download a file while another is partway through downloading it. -- Neil Bothwick Most software is about as user-friendly as a cornered rat!
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