Quick n dirty solution: put all distfiles on a central server FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts
Alan On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 7:21 PM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > 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. > -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
