On Monday 29 January 2007 11:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:47:47 -0800, kashani wrote: > > I wouldn't bother with a full mirror. Set a local rsync server that > > updates once a day and use http-replicator. That would be far less > > bandwidth than trying to keep a local dist server current. > > If daytime bandwidth is a particular issue, you can set up a cron > task on one of more machines (depending on the variety of packages in > use) to do > > emerge --sync && emerge -uDNf world > > to prime the cache during the night. That should reduce your daytime > downloads to almost zero.
The daytime bandwidth is indeed the issue. This is South Africa, where technologically everything is top-notch first-world. Except for bandwidth. By local standards our pipe is quite big - a whopping 512k. Shared amongst two offices and 140 users. At least I get to do whatever I want with the bandwidth after hours - no real users to compete with, just their torrents :-) I already use a fairly complicate solution with emerge -pvf and wget in a cron on one of the fileservers, but it's getting cumbersome. And I'd rather not maintain an entire gentoo install on a server simply to act as a proxy. Would I be right in saying that I'd have to keep the "proxy" machine up to date to avoid the inevitable blockers that will happen in short order if I don't? I've been looking into kashani's suggestion of http-replicator, this might be a good interim solution till I can come up with something better suited to our needs. Thanks alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
