I have two machines running Gentoo - one is an Athlon XP updated to latest ~x86, the other is a plain Athlon updated to x86. I'd like to have only one copy of /usr/portage that I NFS mount from one machine to another, so I can save disk space and network bandwidth (i.e., only do "emerge sync" once, only download files into /usr/portage/distfiles once, etc.)
As far as I can tell, all the host-specific stuff is outside /usr/portage - is there any reason I can't just NFS mount /usr/portage it from one machine to the other?
Have you considered using "emerge sync" on one of the boxes and using plain old "rsync" to update the other box with the portage directory from that one? A simple shell script should do nicely (after setting up rsync, of course).
mickey
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