On Monday 29 January 2007 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:50:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I already use a fairly complicate solution with emerge -pvf and > > wget in a cron on one of the fileservers, but it's getting > > cumbersome. And I'd rather not maintain an entire gentoo install on > > a server simply to act as a proxy. Would I be right in saying that > > I'd have to keep the "proxy" machine up to date to avoid the > > inevitable blockers that will happen in short order if I don't? > > > > I've been looking into kashani's suggestion of http-replicator, > > this might be a good interim solution till I can come up with > > something better suited to our needs. > > I was suggesting the emerge -uDNf world in combination in > http-replicator. The first request forces http-replicator to download > the files, all other request for those files are then handled > locally.
OK, that does make more sense. It's what I first thought you meant but then I (stupidly) thought I'd assumed wrongly... > So if you run this on a suitable cross-section of machines > overnight, http-replicator's cache will be primed by the time you > stumble bleary-eyed into the office. That has to be the most accurate description of my typical mornings I've ever read anywhere... :-) > If all your machines run a similar mix of software, say KDE desktops, > you only need to run the cron task on one of them. Um, that's the hard part. Here's KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, e17 - just for WMs. All machines are ~x86 but that's where the similarities end. I suppose I could set up a master machine whose world is a combination of all the clients. But whatever I chose, the solution doe not appear to be simple :-( alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
