[mythtv-users] Re:Is gentoo the way to go?

[Trey Boudreau]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:00:22AM -0500, Bryan Halter wrote:
> 
> I have 3 Gentoo boxen and wondered the same thing.  I've taken the 
> approach of sharing the tree over NFS.  This doesn't give me the cache 
> updates so searches take forever on the remote boxes but I can do updates.
>
My boxes share a portage tree as well with /usr/portage exported
read-only, /usr/portage/distfiles exported read-write.  A cron job on
the server does the 'emerge --sync', and thirty minutes later cron jobs
on the clients do 'emerge --metadata' to rebuild the caches.

-- Trey