raptor wrote: > if I emerge sync from one of my computer in the network... can I after > that sync other computers on the network from it but not from the central > gentoo mirrors ... how ?
I've done this. I started with the rsync-mirror documentation at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml However, it seemed to me that if the first computer is a Gentoo box getting a regular "emerge sync", then there's already a copy of the portage tree living at /usr/portage and no need to rsync a complete second and/or third set as alluded to there. I ended up with an rsyncd.conf that looked like: use chroot = yes max connections = 20 pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid motd file = /etc/rsync/rsyncd.motd transfer logging = yes log format = %t %a %m %f %b syslog facility = local3 timeout = 300 [gentoo-x86-portage] #this entry is for compatibility # path = /space/gentoo/rsync path = /usr/portage comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree [gentoo-portage] #modern versions of portage use this entry # path = /gentoo/rsync path = /usr/portage comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree mirror exclude = distfiles Note that I enabled chroot and set path = /usr/portage in two places. Over on my second computer, I added this line to /etc/make.conf: SYNC="rsync://192.168.69.5/gentoo-portage/" and now "emerge sync" there gets data from the first machine. I'm not doing the every-30-minutes rsync that the document requires for official mirrors, because I'm simply doing "emerge sync" on the first machine before the second one. I'm tempted to also do an rsync without the --delete option to grab everything in the first machine's /usr/portage/distfiles and drop it in the second machine's, since du tells me that's more than half my /usr/portage already. Or maybe I have to look into setting it up as an http mirror and including it in GENTOO_MIRRORS. (That document should really also have a line about rc-update and starting rsyncd manually the first time.) -- Anthony de Boer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
