Bug 28079

Summary:	DISTCC_HOSTS should be added to /etc/make.conf
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) <gurligebis>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) <lisa>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dev-portage
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-06 15:15:26 UTC

DISTCC_HOSTS should be added to /etc/make.conf as an example, so people knows 
how to set thier distcc hosts in there, so they don't have to run distcc-
config --set-hosts every time they reboot.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-09-06 19:33:23 UTC

lisa: how does this fit in with your distcc scheme ?

Comment 2 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-06 19:54:54 UTC

Bad idea,IMHO. Though I think a note in the make.conf should instruct the user to use distcc-config, though.

The reason distcc-config (now) uses /etc/distcc/hosts is so that the hosts is set in _one_ place.  The usage of this file is also so that each user of the system can use it, and overwrite it with ~/.distcc/hosts or DISTCC_HOSTS envvar.



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Unless there's a *really* good reason to put the hosts in the make.conf, I'll listen, but now I'm more inclined to leave it in /etc/distcc/hosts.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-09-09 09:43:24 UTC

well, you heard her ;)

distcc management is a much bigger task than setting 1 var in make.conf ...
also, you shouldnt have to run --set-hosts after every reboot ... if you do, you should file another bug

Comment 4 Haggai Eran 2004-09-05 15:44:43 UTC

Problem is DISTCC_DIR is set in make.conf by default to something else than /etc/distcc, so /etc/distcc/hosts isn't being read at all when using emerge.

Comment 5 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-05 15:52:15 UTC

DISTCC_DIR does not change where distcc client looks for /etc/distcc/hosts.