Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-27 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi Rich, I will experiment with a local metadata - that seems like it might give a worthwhile speedup (its currently about 910Mb so not too big) Bill K. On 28/2/20 3:44 am, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:27 PM james wrote: >> On 2/26/20 7:08 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-27 Thread William Kenworthy
On 27/2/20 3:51 pm, Robert Bridge wrote: >> On 27 Feb 2020, at 00:08, William Kenworthy wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a >> network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine. However, >> being a laptop trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread james
On 2/27/20 9:53 PM, Dale wrote: james wrote: 5G + gentoo + embedded toys, is going to be FUN FUN FUN. Then I'll be off to other states, via a hacked out Redneck camper.. and too many microProcessors Thanks Rich, your insights and comments are always most welcome. James Off

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread Dale
james wrote: > > > 5G + gentoo + embedded toys, is going to be FUN FUN FUN. > > > Then I'll be off to other states, via a hacked out Redneck > camper.. and too many microProcessors > > > Thanks Rich, your insights and comments are always most welcome. > > > James Off topic a bit but a

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread james
On 2/27/20 4:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:25 PM james wrote: Yea, I was not clear. I'd run the mail-server, on a 'cluster' (4 or more), not an individual pi-board unless it was beef up, processor and ram wise. Gig E would also be on my list. Unless you have some

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:25 PM james wrote: > > Yea, I was not clear. I'd run the mail-server, on a 'cluster' (4 or > more), not an individual pi-board unless it was beef up, processor and > ram wise. Gig E would also be on my list. > Unless you have some niche need I wouldn't generally run

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread james
On 2/27/20 2:51 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: * ai...@aisha.cc: I'm not too sure that running it as a mail server is impossible. I never wrote that it is impossible, only that "I would not use it as an Internet-facing production Mailserver". That's a huge difference. You are free to do as you

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
* ai...@aisha.cc: > I'm not too sure that running it as a mail server is impossible. I never wrote that it is impossible, only that "I would not use it as an Internet-facing production Mailserver". That's a huge difference. You are free to do as you wish, but I still consider it an unsuitable

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:27 PM james wrote: > > On 2/26/20 7:08 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ��� due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage > > onto a > > network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine.� However, > > being a laptop trying

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-27 Thread james
On 2/26/20 7:08 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, ��� due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine.� However, being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very slow and network

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread aisha
I'm not too sure that running it as a mail server is impossible. Depending on your expected traffic level, it should be more than capable enough to do it. My current server is only a 1 core + 1 GB VPS, which is much more lax than a pi-4. Depending on what guides you follow you can definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] mkvtoolnix: To use qt5 or not to use qt5 - that is the question (USE flag in-/valid?)

2020-02-27 Thread tuxic
On 02/27 08:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:12:59 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > this command: > > emerge --selective=n @preserved-rebuild > > > > gives me this message when started: > > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/mkvtoolnix: qt5 > > That's not an atom,

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
* james: > I'm thinking about setting up a pair of Rasp-Pi-4 as DNS servers with > 4GB of ram. Is that enough ram for a DNS server? For running the Nameservers, yes. Compiling Gentoo packages will likely put your SD-Card under stress, but that's just how it goes. My Model B Rev 2 of 2015 runs

Re: [gentoo-user] mkvtoolnix: To use qt5 or not to use qt5 - that is the question (USE flag in-/valid?)

2020-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:12:59 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > this command: > emerge --selective=n @preserved-rebuild > > gives me this message when started: > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/mkvtoolnix: qt5 That's not an atom, it's a USE flag. The format of package.use is atom