I was thinking of yet another way of doing this :"), the simplest one :
1. Install and setup keychain 2. Change FETCH command in /etc/make.conf to something like this : FETCHCOMMAND='ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e "/usr/bin/wget -c -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}" && scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:${DISTDIR}/${FILE} ${DISTDIR}' i havent tested this but it should work.. if u test it post the result :") -c will skip the dload if it is already dloaded > > There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and > > on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. > > > > If you wrote a p2p wrapper for portage, there would be many thanking you - > > there's not one I'm aware of. > > > > Check the archives and the forums (there's one recent HOWTO under > > 'Documentation, Tips & Tricks') for more specifics. > > > Thanks for all the pointers. > * I checked out the HOWTO in the forum. The Proxy idea is good, but not > implementable in my scenario. > * Thinking about it, NFS would be a pain for end users. They have re-compile > their kernels and all. > * I'm thinking of a centralized way to do stuff which would not put too much > of a burden on end users. So that leaves me with SMB (people already have > their samba servers up to recv net sends from other window machines). > * The other would be, to couple the Gentoo Portage with fOOgle (an FTP > Indexing engine that I wrote). So all those who want the central server to > leach up their distfiles would use a web interface to make an entry into > fOOgle's FTP server database. > > I think I'll complete the script in a day or two, and will post it here. > > Nandz. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list