Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> >> You could even set up a mini- trimmed-down sync server. Put your master >> copies of stuff there, take steps so that portage doesn't nuke things, and >> set up a cron to sync once a day. Tell your machines to get their portage >> tree from this server, not gentoo.org somewhere and let rip. Also put a >> proxy on that sync server of yours so distfile downloads only happen once. >> There's many ways to do this - squid is obvious but I believe portage can >> do something similar (which I have not used myself) >> > > you can even put the compiling on one server and let the others download and > install the packets. AFAIR BINHOST is the thing to google for. > > > Oh yeah, the first server would be an rsync mirror, and the distfiles proxy, I've done both before, and both are easy enough.
I hadn't considered the pkg thing, but it should be easy enough to set the buildpkg and usepkg features in the new profile, and nfs mount the packages directory..... The main thing I'm considering at the moment though is keeping the configuration consistant accross different servers, which the profile seems best set to solve...
