Saurabh Nanda said: > Hi, > We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile > mirror > for our university intranet.
There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. Basically, a NFS mount is good, as long as it is read/write, so you don't have to keep track of who has what and make sure they upload it. Unfortunately, if two people start downloading at once, bad things happen. No fix as of yet, although some have suggested using prozilla. Another option is for each user to put up a http/ftp server and make the list publically available, so everyone can load them up into the make.conf and scroll through campus before going outside. If you wrote a p2p wrapper for portage, there would be many thanking you - there's not one I'm aware of. Also, while you're on the topic of saving bandwidth, check out deltup - it's in portage. Check the archives and the forums (there's one recent HOWTO under 'Documentation, Tips & Tricks') for more specifics. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
