On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:58:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > The first step would be to mount /usr/portage on a separate machine > using NFS. Setup an NFS server on that remote box, export the > directory as rw, and then mount it as rw on your machine in fstab. At > this point all the code that's downloaded by your box is actually > placed on another machine where you have space. Keep i mind that this > is 2-3 times the network traffic when you are building code - > Internet->small machine->NFS drive for storage-> small machine to be > built. None the less it works. > > More practical is to just do things normall and watch after the > /usr/portage/distfiles.
A better approach may be to point DISTDIR to an NFS or Samba drive. That way you get the speed of a local portage tree with the distfiles held elsewhere. This cuts down on the network traffic as only the unpacking is done over the network. -- Neil Bothwick Taglines are like cars - You get a good one, then someone nicks it.
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