On Friday, 26 April 2019 08:48:54 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > As well as the suggestions from Rich and Dale, you can also use a shared > directory - I use NFS for this but I see no reason why CIFS wouldn't also > work - for $DISTDIR. This is set in make.conf and tells portage where to > save downloaded files. As portage checks to see if the file is already > there before downloading it, only the first system to need it will > download it, the rest will use the existing copy. > > Just set up an NFS export on the host computer and mount that on the > others, then change make.conf to use that location.
Yet another idea is to run net-proxy/squid on one machine and set that as your download mirror. I used to do that and it worked well. -- Regards, Peter.
