It's getting late tonight to try this - before I do so tomorrow, does anyone have any thoughts about the following plan?
I want one machine facing the internet that's my local mirror and if a client needs something that's not on the mirror, the emerge will fail and I'll get it onto the mirror manually first. I'm thinking I need to set these variables: - make.conf: FEATURES = force-mirror - make.conf: GENTOO_MIRRORS doesn't seem to do anything - /etc/portage/mirrors: local http://192.168.0.4/distfiles I've already set up /etc/portage/repos.conf on the clients and rsyncd on the server. The local mirror of ebuilds seems to work. I've also set up my apache server to have access to the local repository (I'm somewhat less sure of my distfiles server) /var/log/emerge* tells me that emerge on clients is going out directly to the internet instead of getting packages from my mirror. That's what I'm trying to prevent. Any thoughts will be appreciated.
