On Friday, 26 April 2019 09:44:03 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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.
Sorry, I should have said set that machine as http ftp proxy. -- Regards, Peter.
