On Mon, 17 May 2010 19:33:18 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies > >of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is > >shared across all machines on the network and DISTDIR is set > >to /mnt/portage/distfiles in each make.conf. > > I used to do that, but it meant my NFS server had to be running to > perform any software maintenance on any box, so it became a single point > of failure. The FTP approach allows each box to be self-reliant.
Fair comment. I have DISTDIR on my mail server, so if that goes down, I've more to worry about that a few tarballs. Even if it is inaccessible, the other computers would simply download the files to the local directory. > >Sharing /mnt/portage like this means I can also share my overlay across > >the network at /mnt/portage/local. > > My boxes have different stuff in their overlays, and one uses no > overlay packages at all. Sharing overlays doesn't make much sense for > my set-up. It makes sense for me because everything is in one place, making maintenance and backups simpler. Even if a package is only used on one computer, for now, a central location still makes sense. -- Neil Bothwick The computer revolution is over. The computers won.
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