On Friday 18 January 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync > >> /usr/portage/packages > >> as well. > > > > This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_ > > distfiles available locall, you have to setup a mirror. AFAIK this > > is also documented somewhere. > > No, I have a different situation.
Have you looked at the various PORTAGE_RSYNC_* options in 'man 5 make.conf' ? Alternatively you could just create a wrapper script (called say emerge-world) which does the correct combination of your custom commands, then run that from cron on the slaves alan > I many several identical machines. > On the 'main' machine I have > FEATURES="buildpkg" > in /etc/make.conf > > Then, from time to time I synchronize the other machines. > On these machines, > SYNC="rsync://<my main machine>/gentoo-portage > > On the 'slaves' I do > rm -f /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp* > emerge --sync > > and I'd like this 'sync' to rsync /usr/portage/packages, > as well, since lateron I do > > emerge --update --deep --usepkg world > > to avoid length compilation of packages on > each machine. > > Currently I need > /usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete > --exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes rsync://<main > machine>/gentoo-portage/ . in addition to > emerge -sync > > I just wonder if it's possible to tell emerge somewhere to not > exclude the 'packages' subdirectory. > > thanks for all your comments, > Helmut. > > > -- > Helmut Jarausch > > Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik > RWTH - Aachen University > D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
