On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:49:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Quick n dirty solution: > > put all distfiles on a central server > FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts
That's what I used to do, but had problems when downloading the same file from to clients at once. BTW Welcome back Alan, but leave your dirty top-posting in Archland :P > > 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. > > > > -- Neil Bothwick Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
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