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mody
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:54 am    Post subject: Eliminate downloading using local uptodate gentoo system? Reply with quote

I am aware of using a local 'rsync Mirror' for the portage tree... is there any way to reduce the number of downloads using a local uptodate installed gentoo system's already downloaded packages? Does one simply copy over some files from the existing uptodate gentoo system to the one being installed? Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the processor subarchitectures are compatible, and their USE flags and CFLAGS are similar - if not exactly equal - then you can simply force install the one system's binary packages on the other machine.

Note that this means that you have to use the least common denominator of the features you use for both systems.

Set "buildpkg" in FEATURES to always build binary packages.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The existing uptodata system is a P4 Toshiba laptop and the system to be installed is an AthlonXP desktop. I would like the new machine to use a stage1 install, what I need to avoid is the downloading of the source tarballs that happens with emerging things like system, gentoo-dev-sources, xorg-x11, gome... which has already been done onto the laptop. I would like the new machine to compile its own binaries but I need to avoid using the net and use the local machine to get its source packages.

Is there some way I can copy those source packages onto the system to be installed so when it looks for the packeges its already on its drive?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been asked and answered many times on the forums.

NFS share the /usr/portage/distfiles directory and mount it there on the other machine.
That way, you can download source packages on either machine, and both will have access to them.

You then essentially have only one, shared, source directory.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Loads of tips can be found in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=59134

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