On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are > > all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to > > have a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory > > for a source tarball file. If not found, then fail over to another > > mirror as per GENTOO_MIRRORS in /etc/portage/make.conf. This would > > require emerge doing the lookup and potential failover for each file. > > Is this possible? > > Unless I misunderstand what you're asking, isn't this what takes place > anyway?
The reference to a host makes me think Walter wants one machne to hold the distfiles for all on the network. > PS. Is http_replicator still available/maintained? I see the wiki > mentions apt-cacher-ng for local distfiles cache. I use apt-cacher-ng for this and it does what you are looking for. -- Neil Bothwick The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant.
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