Bug 1191 – Portage tree replication

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Geert Bevin 2002-03-16 16:39:52 UTC]

It would be nice to be able to use /var/db/pkg as a repository tree on itself
that can then be used by other machines on the network. Thus manually updating
one machine and that other machine automatically (once a day) update their local
repository and update to the packages listen in there.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-03-23 12:51:30 UTC]

You mean that emerging a package on one system results in it being emerged on 
other systems on your LAN?  Let's move away from implementation specifics 
(/var/db/pkg) and talk a bit more about what you want to accomplish (automated 
LAN upgrades?)

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2002-06-01 00:49:58 UTC]

i developed a quick and dirty solution for this kind of thing (assuming this is 
what you meant :)) ... 
 
first, a shared /usr/portage/ tree via samba or whatever net-fs floats your 
boat.  export /usr/portage/ as read only with guest permissions. 
 
then export /usr/portage/distfiles/ with write permissions and guest access.  
this is of course a very large security problem on some networks, but in my 
case, i'm sitting on a personal house lan with 4 comps w/gentoo ... works 
wonders. 
if this is not a possibility, just do a mount -o bind on /usr/portage/distfiles 
(after you mount /usr/portage/ of course) to access the dir locally, and setup 
a local mirror in /etc/make.conf (wget -m --no-parent 
http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo) 
 
finally, a local cron job that does 2 things: 
(1) emerge world -u -p 
(2) emerge world -u 
an e-mail is sent with (1) as the body and (2) as a zipped up attachment ... 
and of course on the server i run 'emerge rysnc' before the upgrades, grepping 
out "/$" and "files." ... 
emerge rsync | grep -v "/$" | grep -v "files." 

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-11-07 12:18:25 UTC]

same idea as #10149

[Comment 4 Charles Goodwin 2003-12-13 16:48:37 UTC]

Given the age and the fact that a clever setup is the fix for this problem...