I would like to set up one of my Gentoo systems as a binary host to build and distribute packages that normally take longer to compile, like libreoffice, firefox and thuderbird, to another Gentoo system of mine with less RAM.
I've been following the instructions found here, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide. What I've done so far on the binhost is: (1). I've installed lighttpd and set 'server.document-root' to PKGDIR in '/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf'. grep portage/packages /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf server.document-root = "/usr/portage/packages" (2). I've built a libreoffice package using: 'quickpkg app-office/libreoffice'. ls /usr/portage/packages/ Packages app-office (3). As I attempted to access http://127.0.0.1/Packages, I got a 403 HTTP error returned. I guess that's because of the access permissions for PKGDIR. ls -ld /usr/portage/packages/ drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jan 16 18:38 /usr/portage/packages/ If I understand it correctly, I have to decide on which protocol to use, ftp, http, or ssh. Which one do folk here prefer, or would recommend? The wiki article suggests setting up a binpkguser and adding a client-root.id.rsa.pub to the binpkguser's authorized_keys, right? Does that mean that a dedicated user has to be set up, instead of using my current user account on the binhost? |root # ||useradd -m -r -G portage -s /bin/bash binpkguser root # ||echo clientA-root.id_rsa.pub >> /home/binpkguser/.ssh/authorized_keys| On the client system, all I have to do is set up PORTAGE_BINHOST in '/etc/portage.make.conf' and emerge the binary packages desired. Is that right? Any other advise, and/or suggestions would be much appreciated.
