Bug 94444 – small inexactness in distcc guide

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Matthias Langer 2005-05-29 19:55:05 UTC]

I'm not really an distcc expert, just started to use it a few days - so I may be
wrong. Nervertheless, to me it seems, that in the gentoo-distcc-guide

Code Listing 2.4: Sample command to set the hosts
# /usr/bin/distcc-config --set-hosts "192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3"

localhost should be included, maybe with the remark that this should not be done
in larger networks [ http://distcc.samba.org/faq.html#include-localhost ]. At
least, since localhost is in that list on my laptop the output of
DISTCC_DIR="/var/tmp/portage/.distcc/" distccmon-gnome looks more appealing to
me ...

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) 2005-05-29 20:02:21 UTC]

the "large network" problem is covered in bug 42712

[Comment 2 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2005-05-31 04:24:45 UTC]

"Code Listing 2.4: /Sample/ command to set the hosts"

Duplicating the man page for distcc is counterproductive.  The distcc guide is 
to get the user familiar with the program.  As always, the user is encouraged to 
read the man page and websites related with the program.

Docs team: I would close this as "WONTFIX" or mark as a duplicate of bug #42712.

[Comment 3 Matthias Langer 2005-05-31 04:52:08 UTC]

Well, but the distcc guide should neither be misleading ...

[Comment 4 Matthias Langer 2005-05-31 05:53:28 UTC]

What I mean is: I thought, after reading that guide, that localhost will
participate by default, without beeing mentioned explicitly.

[Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-06-02 11:45:12 UTC]

Agreed; first wait until 42712 is done, then add in a sentence that the
configuration can very well include the local host as well.

[Comment 6 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 16:02:10 UTC]

lisa fixed it in her patch from bug 42712