Martin Scharrer wrote:
Then mounting the /usr/portage tree with NFS is definitely the way to
go. I have the one machine set up with a cron job to sync at midnight
every day and an appropriate line in /etc/fstab on each of the other
machines. That is it. I never have to sync the other machines.
But
Walter Dnes wrote:
The simplest way is to use NFS and simply mount /usr/portage on the host
machine from the others. It works well here on a network of 6 machines.
I don't think I made myself clear enough. I do *NOT* want to
duplicate /portage/distfiles. I want to duplicate machine A's
Admin wrote:
I
had to remove framebuffer from kernel because when I left it in console
mode
(there was no X installed) screensaver was blocking the display.
There is no screensaver in console (framebuffer) mode. There is,
however, screen BLANKING - which can be turned off with:
setterm
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
The simplest way is to use NFS and simply mount /usr/portage on the host
machine from the others. It works well here on a network of 6 machines.
Alternatively, you can use rsync. There is a how-to somewhere on the
Gentoo website.
This is what I do.
1. echo
Antoine wrote:
GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/
http://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
Antoine wrote:
Hi,
There is currently a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79046)
that is stopping me from emerging world, is there any way to specify
when emerging world not to update one of the packages, so the rest will
attempt to pass? If not, what should I do?
Start the emerge
