On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 06:21:27PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > > The reference to a host makes me think Walter wants one machne to hold > the distfiles for all on the network.
Correct. > I use apt-cacher-ng for this and it does what you are looking for. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_distfiles_cache#Open_issues says... > Open issues > > * Apt-cacher-ng installs a cron job to delete unreferenced files > from the cache. Since the Gentoo cache contains no index files, > this probably deletes either everything or nothing from it. Have you run into ptoblems with this? It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the quick-n-dirty solution like Alan suggested. And I never have a need to have emerge run simultaneously on more than one machine. -- I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
