[gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN

[Crístian Viana]

hi,

I have 7 computers in local network and I want them to have always the same portage files (the ones synchronized with rsync). of course I can use crontab to make them sync at a specific time but I'm wondering if there's a better alternative. I saw a wiki page which says to create one local rsync server and have the other 6 computers synchronize with it (by pointing the SYNC variable to the local rsync server). but I also thought NFS could be nice: I just have to sync one machine and everyone will always be "synchronized".

what's the best approach for this case?

thanks!

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Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

[Richard Marza]

From: Crístian Viana

To: gento...@lists.gentoo.org

Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:32 PM

Subject: [gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN

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The options you mentioned is the best...Just settup the rsync server on the machine you want it on and then setup a cront job to update it daily. Set your 6 hosts to use your local rsync server machine and create cron jobs for the 6 machines. Just make sure that their cron jobs are 5-10 minutes ahead of when the local rsync server updates it's files.

[Dale]

I think either way would work. The bad thing about a NFS is that you
have to run emerge --metadata to update the files in /var. I think this
is still correct. I always synced to my main machine. It is easier in
my opinion. I seem to recall having to uncomment one line in the config
file and start rsyncd. It worked.

My thoughts at least.

Dale

:-) :-)

[Florian Philipp]

Crístian Viana schrieb:

Slow network or WLAN? Use a local rsync server. There is a package for
this (app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror) and instructions on the net.

While you are at it, you could also install an http or ftp proxy for
distfiles. net-proxy/http-replicator should do it if you do not want a
complete proxy infrastructure.

>=100MBit connection? Use NFS. You should not only put your portage tree
on this but also distfiles and /var/cache/edb. Do not do this with
/var/db/pkg, however.

Hope this helps
Florian Philipp