On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:59:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So if you run this on a suitable cross-section of machines > > overnight, http-replicator's cache will be primed by the time you > > stumble bleary-eyed into the office. > > That has to be the most accurate description of my typical mornings > I've ever read anywhere... :-)
If we were meant to turn up at work wide awake, $DEITY wouldn't have given us coffee machines :) > > If all your machines run a similar mix of software, say KDE desktops, > > you only need to run the cron task on one of them. > > Um, that's the hard part. Here's KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, e17 - just for > WMs. All machines are ~x86 but that's where the similarities end. I > suppose I could set up a master machine whose world is a combination of > all the clients. But whatever I chose, the solution doe not appear to > be simple :-( There's nothing to stop you installing all the DE/WMs on one box, it doesn't have to use them all, or run emerge -uf world on more than one. I guess you could also join all your world files into one, remove dupes and do something like "emerge -uf system; xargs emerge -uDf <masterfile". -- Neil Bothwick Don't be humble, you're not that great.
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