[SOLVED]distcc in two steps:fetch online and compile offline

[leonixyz]

I have like to install Gentoo on 4 different machines (old but very cheap), put them in a LAN, and use them as help to emerge large packages or to update world. The only problem is that I live in a flat and have no place for them. The only possibility is to put them in the the cellar, but there is no internet signal there. I tried to enforce my wi-fi with some home-made stuff, but unsuccessfully, and I don't want to pay for a repeater or something like that.

Reading "man emerge" I see there is a --fetch-only option which could be useful to fetch ebuilds in my flat, and I want to know how could I do to run compilation/installation after that, when I go downstairs in the cellar. Is possible to do that? How?
Thank

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Solved, thanks

[John R. Graham]

If you use --fetchonly upstairs, then no internet connection will be required downstairs, so long as the machines all have access to the /usr/portage/distfiles that was fetched upstairs. Just

• Emerge with the --fetchonly upstairs.
  
• Emerge like normal, without the --fetchonly option, downstairs.

- John
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[NeddySeagoon]

leonixyz,

Thats called Sneakernet. It still works today despite the date on the post.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[John R. Graham]

Should've just linked to that post. I've got it bookmarked.

- John
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