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dhewton · Post by **dhewton** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:43 pm

I am at an office where they watch bandwidth.

What I would like is to be able to make my notebook the source for updates. So when I emerge the 4-5 machines I have "gentoo'd", they look to my machine for the updates and download from my machine.

I will simply download all the sources when I am at home to my notebook.

Is this possible?

Thanks

dan

Insanity5902 · Post by **Insanity5902** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:55 pm

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=202050

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=173226

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=180336

The first one creates a mysql (or other db) backend for portage and then you can tell other machines to have portage look at that sql server.

The second it is a http replicator

The third is how to create a local rsync mirror.

Enjoy

dhewton · Post by **dhewton** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:57 pm

Insanity5902 wrote:http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=202050

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=173226

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=180336

The first one creates a mysql (or other db) backend for portage and then you can tell other machines to have portage look at that sql server.

The second it is a http replicator

The third is how to create a local rsync mirror.

Enjoy

Thanks so much.

One far simpler thing I thought was downloading the source to my notebook, could I not just manually download the source to the remote boxes. (basically I am trying to avoid 200mb openoffice source files etc)

Thanks

ep98 · Post by **ep98** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:02 pm

here is what I have to update my 10 Gentoo boxes

Local RSYNC mirror, emerge gentoo-rsync-mirror, is it very easy to set up
second one, everythin downloaded by the first one which is second wall in /usr/portage/distfiles (80GB is mine one)

is exported in NFS, and everyone gets the files from the 1st one, emerge nfs-utils on everyone box

than mount the drive with mount

mine looks like this one:

mount 192.168.0.1:/usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles
Tip: Will be better if u set only Read-only permissions to this mount.

dhewton · Post by **dhewton** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:08 pm

mount 192.168.0.1:/usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles
Tip: Will be better if u set only Read-only permissions to this mount.[/quote]

This may kill 2 birds with one stone.. I have also not been able to establish how to mount another machine onto mine. But I want it to be so I can copy files back and forth through this..

Could you give me an idea of your mount command including the ability to have write access. The machines being mounted are all inux using resierfs.

Thanks

DAn

ep98 · Post by **ep98** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:19 pm

dhewton wrote:mount 192.168.0.1:/usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles
Tip: Will be better if u set only Read-only permissions to this mount.

This may kill 2 birds with one stone.. I have also not been able to establish how to mount another machine onto mine. But I want it to be so I can copy files back and forth through this..

Could you give me an idea of your mount command including the ability to have write access. The machines being mounted are all inux using resierfs.

Thanks

DAn[/quote]
first of all u need to setup a nfs server
second to edit /etc/exports by hand or via Webmin (second is a easy way to newbies)

/path/to/dir 192.168.0.250/255.255.255.0(ro,insecure,no_root_squash), this is for read only, to make it writtable, simply change 'ro' to 'rw'

dhewton · Post by **dhewton** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:49 pm

DAn[/quote]
first of all u need to setup a nfs server
second to edit /etc/exports by hand or via Webmin (second is a easy way to newbies)

/path/to/dir 192.168.0.250/255.255.255.0(ro,insecure,no_root_squash), this is for read only, to make it writtable, simply change 'ro' to 'rw'[/quote]

This worked for me but it was not rw, and I am assuming it makes me root doing it.

mount 192.168.1.100:/home /home/dhewton/mount

I would like for a user to be able to access his area. In the above example dhewton (me) wants to be able to copy and write files back and forth.

Dan you give me an idea how to make this happening knowing the above command line is my starting point?

Thanks

DAn

ep98 · Post by **ep98** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:14 am

The easy way to maintain NFS and the other services is Webmin
simply:

emerge webmin

rc-update add webmin boot
/etc/init.d/webmin start

mozilla localhost:10000

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