Alan E. Davis wrote: > >I'm not certain what an rsync server is, but I am guessing it >would be a cache of files that could be picked up by other machines. > >
When you do a emerge sync, it connects to a rsync server. When I do that on one of my secondary rigs, it gets the portage files off my main rig. I don't even have to be connected to the net. Rsync can be used for other things though. Some use it to do back-ups with, from what I have read anyway. >Perhaps the laptop could do this, and serve as a go-between. That's >the main thing I am trying to do---move files off the machine at work >(or conceivably the laptop) to the machine at home, for installing and >updating. It's excruciatingly slow to emerge alot of large packages >of 100MB and up by dialup. Glacial. > > If you have some of the bigger packages on your laptop, you can copy them over the network manually to /usr/portage/distfiles. I have done this before. Not as fancy but it works. I have done it with CDs before. >I saw a Tip document today on how to use XDelta (deltaup?) to save >time. Is this a workable solution? I am not averse to carrying a CD >around, or using the laptop as a go-between. > > > > > I'm not familiar with that. For my local stuff, which may/should work for you, I use rsyncd and http-replicator. I can do emerge sync's and download new packages locally when I install or upgrade one of my other three rigs. Basically they share everything from my main rig. >I understand now about not using /usr/portage for personal work or off >the wall administration. I actually think that I can pull off what I >had in mind, and the machine is currently grinding away at the >downloads, as I type, across town. The rsync server seems >interesting, though. > >Alan > > > For personnal stuff, you should really use /home/<user>/some-directory. I have two places for mine; /home/dale/Desktop/Documents and /mnt/data. The last one used to be on a seperate drive but is now on a seperate partition instead. And yes, I did move my Documents directory. I like mine on my desktop thank you, right next to the trash can. LOL One thing about Linux, there are tons of ways to do the exact same thing. Lots of options. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
