Hi, We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile mirror for our university intranet.
There are a decent number of Gentoo users here, and it is a waste of bandwidth with people downloading the same packages off the internet. * So, we set up a central FTP server with certain popular distfiles. * We also started maintaining a list of all Gentoo users within the campus who were putting up *their distfiles* for FTP. So that people could add those servers to GENTOO_MIRRORS in their make.conf's This is not exactly the most viable solution, because: * It's difficult keeping track of Gentoo users with FTP servers on their machines. * Say, a certain distfile is on X's machine, but not on the central FTP server, and X has switched off his machine - the person who needs the distfile will have to download it off the net - even though the file is available in the LAN. * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS mount point, an AFS mount-point? * We would also be using a P2P service in the campus shorty. Could portage pick off files from the P2P network? * Has anyone tried this? What was your experience? TIA, Nandz. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
