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Central Rsync Server: Gentoo Howto
Posted by zdawg at Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:17 pm
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I thought I would add this How-To for the Gentoo users out there,
assuming you have a LAN set-up, it saves time downloading. Let's begin!
emerge app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror
Don't update the config files after emerge!
#Now that that is merged let's configure
nano /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf
#Here is what I have in that file:
use chroot = no
max connections = 10
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
motd file = /etc/rsync/rsyncd.motd
transfer logging = yes
log format = %t %a %m %f %b
syslog facility = local3
timeout = 300
#hosts allow = <your list>
[gentoo-portage]
#For replicating the Portage tree to internal clients
path = /usr/portage
comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree mirror
exclude = distfiles
[gentoo-packages]
#For distributing Portage packages (distfiles) to internal clients
path = /usr/portage/distfiles
comment = Gentoo Linux Packages mirror
rc-update add rsyncd default
/etc/init.d/rsyncd start
#That was the server set-up, now on to the client, let's edit /etc/make.conf
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
#Find and uncomment those.
#Now add this
SYNC=rsync://<Your gateway ip here>/gentoo-portage
#Then add this ( I group it with the other fetch commands):
FETCHCOMMAND="rsync rsync://<your gateway ip>/gentoo-packages/\${FILE} ${DISTDIR}"
#I almost forgot, rsync tries to compress an already compressed file in this set-up, so add this to your server:
nano -w /etc/init.d/rsyncd
#change this line:
RSYNC_OPTS="--safe-links --compress --bwlimit=700 --timeout=1800"
#to look like this:
RSYNC_OPTS="--safe-links --time
out=1800"
I then do any emerge's on the gateway box once. And I use the emerge -f first on the client as well as the server.
A note: your gateway ip should be your internal gw ip!
Works for me, especially as I have a 56K connection!
Last update: 2005-03-02 03:15
Author: Erkan Kaplan
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