Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ?
The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad core CPU - machine B is equipped with an N330 Atom-CPU - machine A is doing the system update on a local chroot-environment for machine B and generates binary packages. These packages are installed on machine B using the binary package feature of portage. I expected that the above setup would give an performance improvement over letting machine B do the portage update itself. However a trial run did not show significant improvement that justifies the effort. Machine B still needs a reasonable amount of time to fetch unpack and install the packages. An alternative way might be to mount machine B's / directory via NFS and change make.conf's $ROOT variable to that mount point. Does that sound as a reasonable approach ? Regards, Thomas
