Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 05 April 2011 22:38:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:26:22 -0500, Dale wrote: You may do if you put $PORTDIR on NFS, but I am only sharing $DISTDIR. I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles and all. I wasn't to clear on what I was doing in my reply up

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:38:21 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles and all. I wasn't to clear on what I was doing in my reply up there. Even $PKGDIR? That's not a good idea unless you have identical hardware and USE flags. But didn't you

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:38:21 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles and all. I wasn't to clear on what I was doing in my reply up there. Even $PKGDIR? That's not a good idea unless you have identical hardware and USE

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread KH
Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you trying to do something fancier than just serving out tarballs? Yes; I want it to mirror my portage tree and serve

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Jake Moe
On 04/05/11 18:14, KH wrote: Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you trying to do something fancier than just serving out tarballs? Yes; I want it to mirror

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread KH
Am 05.04.2011 11:46, schrieb Jake Moe: On 04/05/11 18:14, KH wrote: Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you trying to do something fancier than just serving

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Jake Moe
On 04/05/11 19:53, KH wrote: Am 05.04.2011 11:46, schrieb Jake Moe: On 04/05/11 18:14, KH wrote: Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you trying to do

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:38:06 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: for the distfiles http-replicator is great. Example: Box one has the tarball. Box 2, 3 and 4 can download it as well. Box one does not have the tarball. Box 2 may search for it, box one will download it and give it to box 2. Then box 3

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:38:06 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: for the distfiles http-replicator is great. Example: Box one has the tarball. Box 2, 3 and 4 can download it as well. Box one does not have the tarball. Box 2 may search for it, box one will download it and give it to

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:48:50 -0500, Dale wrote: Alternatively, use an NFS mount as $DISTDIR and you don't end up with copies of the tarballs on every machine on the network. I did that once and I don't recall having any problems. I had 4 rigs plus a really slow dial-up connection. When

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:48:50 -0500, Dale wrote: Alternatively, use an NFS mount as $DISTDIR and you don't end up with copies of the tarballs on every machine on the network. I did that once and I don't recall having any problems. I had 4 rigs plus a

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:26:22 -0500, Dale wrote: You may do if you put $PORTDIR on NFS, but I am only sharing $DISTDIR. I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles and all. I wasn't to clear on what I was doing in my reply up there. Even $PKGDIR? That's not a good idea unless you have

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Gregory Fontenele
how it came out of that list? On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 18:38, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:26:22 -0500, Dale wrote: You may do if you put $PORTDIR on NFS, but I am only sharing $DISTDIR. I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles and all. I wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:26:22 -0500, Dale wrote: You may do if you put $PORTDIR on NFS, but I am only sharing $DISTDIR. I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles and all. I wasn't to clear on what I was doing in my reply up there. Even

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Gregory Fontenele
how it came out of that list? On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 19:16, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:26:22 -0500, Dale wrote: You may do if you put $PORTDIR on NFS, but I am only sharing $DISTDIR. I cheated and just shared /usrportage, distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Dale
Gregory Fontenele wrote: how it came out of that list? -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele Are you on a loop or something? Same post to several threads now. What's up? Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread KH
Am 06.04.2011 01:09, schrieb Dale: Gregory Fontenele wrote: how it came out of that list? -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele Are you on a loop or something? Same post to several threads now. What's up? Dale :-) :-) well, it is differnt this time. I allready missed the

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:16:58 -0500, Dale wrote: Even $PKGDIR? That's not a good idea unless you have identical hardware and USE flags. I didn't save those back then. I very rarely use the -K option anyway. I build them now but I only used it once in the past couple years. It's like

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:16:58 -0500, Dale wrote: Even $PKGDIR? That's not a good idea unless you have identical hardware and USE flags. I didn't save those back then. I very rarely use the -K option anyway. I build them now but I only used it once in the

[gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello again list, Will someone who knows please tell me what permissions I need to give the /usr/portage tree for http-replicator to manage it? I've started with chown -R portage:portage /usr/portage but that may not be ideal. TIA -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-04 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello again list, Will someone who knows please tell me what permissions I need to give the /usr/portage tree for http-replicator to manage it? I've started with chown -R portage:portage /usr/portage but that may not be ideal. TIA This is mine: drwxr-xr-x 163 root

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 16:22 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello again list, Will someone who knows please tell me what permissions I need to give the /usr/portage tree for http-replicator to manage it? I've started with chown -R portage:portage /usr/portage but that may not be ideal.

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions

2011-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you trying to do something fancier than just serving out tarballs? Yes; I want it to mirror my portage tree and serve it to other boxes on the LAN. It used to do this