I nfs mount the /usr/portage/distfiles directory for my other machines, and then have their portage setup to sync with the parent machine's portage tree. The setup seems to work real well for the three machines here at the house.
Sean On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 16:36, Manuel McLure wrote: > I have two machines running Gentoo - one is an Athlon XP updated to > latest ~x86, the other is a plain Athlon updated to x86. I'd like to > have only one copy of /usr/portage that I NFS mount from one machine to > another, so I can save disk space and network bandwidth (i.e., only do > "emerge sync" once, only download files into /usr/portage/distfiles > once, etc.) > > As far as I can tell, all the host-specific stuff is outside > /usr/portage - is there any reason I can't just NFS mount /usr/portage > it from one machine to the other? > > Thanks! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
