distfiles, packages on FAT32 - would you recommend?

#31 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:49 AM

Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.com.imagination> wrote in
news:slrncs3gma.gjt.sybrenUSE@sybren.thirdtower.co m:

> Just use NFS to mount the portage tree from the server, and
> emerge all you want on the clients.

Thank you for your attention.
Of course this solution is starkingly obvious but I wanted something more

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S

#32 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:49 AM

S wrote:

> Ben Measures <saint_abroadremove@removehotmail.com> wrote in
> news:1ZFvd.37112$up1.21157@text.news.blueyonder.co .uk:
>
>> Take a step back and ask yourself what you really want to do.
>
> Ok, just answer me please if '/usr/portage/packages' can be mounted to a
> partition formatted as fat32 ?
> I know about symlinks in that directory but are they vital/necessary for
> command "emerge -K blah-blah" to work?

Ultimately, I don't know. But I'd imagine they're necessary for any program
which has symlinks - you can emerge anything which doesn't have a symlink,
but things which do have a symlink will break.
>
> That is, if there is directory '/usr/portage/packages/All' with *.tbz2
> files, without sofware-categories directories with those symlinks, will
> 'emerge -K' do its job?
>
> If not, maybe thre is some simple remedy to this problem, some simple
> fix/hack - it looks like a minor problem
>
Maybe try using UMSDOS? That might mess up if you tried to put anything
there under windows though.

#33 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:49 AM

Hmm.... You could emerge things on the server, for an more general
arch, and use quickpkg to create binaries for the other machines.
Take a look:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...ap=4#doc_chap3

#34 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:49 AM

Hmm... You could compile everything on admins server, and build a
binary for an generic arch with quickpkg. Take a look:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...ap=3#doc_chap4

#35 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:50 AM

S a écrit :
> Would you recommend to set these 2 directories (distfiles, packages) on FAT32
> partition?
>
> Sometimes it facilitates swapping those binary files (wich are of time-
> consuming downloads/compilations) between computers, especially when they are
> multiboot ones and sometimes they run MSwindows ...
>
> Anyways, is there any risk of using FAT32 specifically for these two
> directories (assuming all other partitions are ext3)?
>
There are tools to mount ext2 partitions r/w in windows (see ext2fsd in
sourceforge). (ext2fsd is alpha so use with care)
So maybe you can create ext2 partition mounted as part of the portage
tree, and you can r/w from windows ?

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