An alternative to http-replicator
Walter Dnes
waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 9 04:55:48 UTC 2006
We want to be "kinder and gentler" to the Gentoo mirrors. I have 2
machines; my main machine and a 1999 450 mhz PIII as "hot backup". I
try to keep the backup up to date with apps duplicating the main
machine, so that if the main machine dies, I can restore some data from
backups and be running in a couple of hours.
The procedure for "emerge --rsync" using the main machine as server is
simple. I'll now present my solution for /usr/portage/distfiles. This
obviously works best for machines with a similar set of apps. Run
emerge update on the server machine first. It'll get the tarballs it
needs, and they'll be sitting in /usr/portage/distfiles, waiting to be
served out to other machines in your LAN that need the same tarballs.
I use the "boa" webserver. It's lighweight, simple to configure, and
you can run multiple instances simultaneously. That is the best way to
separate privileges for different clients.
*IMPORTANT* Gentoo's emerge command always looks in the "distfiles"
folder below whatever URL it's given for a mirror. E.g. if I specify
"http://www.bad.example.com" as the mirror to use, emerge will look in
"http://www.bad.example.com/distfiles". The "Alias" declaration in
boa.conf handles this. The secondary machine's /etc/make.conf has the
line...
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.123.252:1024 ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/
+http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
so it'll try my main machine (192.168.123.252 on port 1024) first. I
invoke the portage server dedicated boa with the command...
boa -c /root/.boa/portage/
which implies that the config file to use is /root/.boa/portage/boa.conf
My /root/.boa/portage/boa.conf currently looks like so...
Port 1024
Listen 192.168.123.252
User nobody
Group nogroup
ErrorLog /var/log/boa/portage/error_log
AccessLog /var/log/boa/portage/access_log
DocumentRoot /usr/portage/distfiles/
UseLocaltime
DirectoryMaker /usr/lib/boa/boa_indexer
KeepAliveMax 1000
KeepAliveTimeout 10
MimeTypes /etc/boa/mime.types
DefaultType text/plain
Alias /distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles
Note that in addition to using a dedicated I/O port, the "portage
instance" of boa also has its own log files.
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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