Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-06 Thread William Kenworthy
I'll also jump on board this - http-replicator works great. You build it from your existing distfile cache. You do not need the large mirror files as many, or rather most are unlikely ever to be accessed. Build it with what you already have, and just top it up as you go - if the file isnt alread

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:38 am, kashani wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > I was asked a similar question today at work. we have some new gentoo > > servers that do not have outbound access to the net. We'd like to have > > a local mirror. Is there a howto? > > I run a proxy server for the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread kashani
John Jolet wrote: I was asked a similar question today at work. we have some new gentoo servers that do not have outbound access to the net. We'd like to have a local mirror. Is there a howto? I run a proxy server for the servers without access. That might be easier than having a local m

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 21:28:04 -0500 John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asked a similar question today at work. we have some new > gentoo servers that do not have outbound access to the net. We'd > like to have a local mirror. Is there a howto? > Check on www.gentoo.org, there

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread Nick Rout
Why would you want ALL of distfiles? A lot is old & redundant. Also why would you rsync it? Thats a lot of cpu grinding. I suggest setting up one of these: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator If someone really wants every source file ever made, this will get i

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread John Jolet
I was asked a similar question today at work. we have some new gentoo servers that do not have outbound access to the net. We'd like to have a local mirror. Is there a howto? On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:21 PM, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi everyone, I am interested in creating a Gentoo mirror for

[gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi everyone, I am interested in creating a Gentoo mirror for our organisation. However the issue I have is getting an initial snapshot of the distfiles. RSYNCing the files from a current server is going to take us awefully long and our ADSL connection is not really going to stand it :) Can