Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-21 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:17:59 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That should be cool, given all the MD5-sum checking. Would NFS not > > do the right thing, you will get a sensible error and can try again. > > If two machines start downloading the same file at the same t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:02, Björn Lindström wrote: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Seeing the thread was originally about a server environment, I want to > > add just one small possible problem in this scenario. What if two > > computers are trying to fetch the same file at the

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seeing the thread was originally about a server environment, I want to > add just one small possible problem in this scenario. What if two > computers are trying to fetch the same file at the same time? What > happens is that they both fail. Just playing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 20 October 2003 23:02, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Erwin Lang wrote: > > Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 08:47 schrieb Björn Lindström: > >>Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them > >>>from a mirror)? > >> > >>a) Why on earth

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread tobias . edler
> >we have about 15 servers in our company, and I'm not interested in > >downloading the same packages from the internet for each server. If > >anybody knows a better way of solving this problem, please let me know. > >thank you! > > For my LAN, I have 1 computer that has /usr/portage shared via

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For my LAN, I have 1 computer that has /usr/portage shared via NFS. On > all the other computers, I have this NFS share mounted as > /usr/portage. I have a cron job that runs every night that does > 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -uDf world' on the main comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Erwin Lang wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 08:47 schrieb Björn Lindström: Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them from a mirror)? a) Why on earth would you do that? (Unless you're setting up a public mirror, that's a good thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread David Gethings
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:30, Erwin Lang wrote: > we have about 15 servers in our company, and I'm not interested in downloading > the same packages from the internet for each server. If anybody knows a > better way of solving this problem, please let me know. > thank you! I've been thinking along

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Patrick
MAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space Agreed. Even if you downloaded all the distfiles for each of the 15 servers, the total downloaded would still be less than 23gb. On Monday 20 October 2003 17:33, Patrick wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
e - > From: "Erwin Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:30 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space > > Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 08:47 schrieb Björn Lindström: > > Er

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Patrick
updating it daily. just my 2c worth P - Original Message - From: "Erwin Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 08:47 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Erwin Lang
Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 08:47 schrieb Björn Lindström: > Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them > > from a mirror)? > > a) Why on earth would you do that? (Unless you're setting up a public > mirror, that's a good thing.) w

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 20 October 2003 15:47, Björn Lindström wrote: >> Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them >> > from a mirror)? >> >> a) Why on earth would you do that? (Unless you're setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 20 October 2003 15:47, Björn Lindström wrote: > Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them > > from a mirror)? > > a) Why on earth would you do that? (Unless you're setting up a public > mirror, that's a good thing.) > >

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space

2003-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them > from a mirror)? a) Why on earth would you do that? (Unless you're setting up a public mirror, that's a good thing.) b) ~10Gb -- Björn Lindström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://bkhl.elektru