I nfs mount the /usr/portage/distfiles directory for my other machines, and then have their portage setup to sync with the parent machine's portage tree. The setup seems to work real well for the three machines here at the house.
Sean
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 16:36, Manuel McLure wrote:
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?
Hmmm... that would be an option, however it means that everything but the distfiles directory would still be duplicated. I was hoping that there were no host-specific files.
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