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Musashi stores the package-info on one of our RAID arrays.  | Musashi stores the package-info on one of our RAID arrays.  | ||
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For part two, '''nelson''' will NFS-mount that same RAID array with the now-updated packages, and re-serve it to the client-machines.  Nelson runs '''rsyncd''' to listen for incoming (rsync) connection requests.  Typically, these incoming requests are triggered by the existence of an update-script file in '''/etc/cron.daily/'''.  For a Gentoo machine, this file is '''emergesync''' and looks like:  | For part two, '''nelson''' will NFS-mount that same RAID array with the now-updated packages, and re-serve it to the client-machines.  Nelson runs '''rsyncd''' to listen for incoming (rsync) connection requests.  Typically, these incoming requests are triggered by the existence of an update-script file in '''/etc/cron.daily/'''.  For a Gentoo machine, this file is '''emergesync''' and looks like:    | ||
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  <font color=red>hostname</font> <font color=blue>~ #</font> '''cat /etc/cron.daily/emergesync'''  |   <font color=red>hostname</font> <font color=blue>~ #</font> '''cat /etc/cron.daily/emergesync'''  | ||
  #!/bin/bash  |   #!/bin/bash  | ||
  emerge -q --nospinner --sync > /dev/null 2>&1  |   emerge -q --nospinner --sync > /dev/null 2>&1  | ||
Revision as of 17:17, 1 December 2006
Running our local-mirror of Gentoo (and other distributions) is a two-part process:
- we pull the updated packages and information from a source on the 'Net (typically the distribution's canonical source). This gives us a local copy to work from.
 - our machines then contact this local-re-server, and synchronize
 
This first step is performed on musashi, using these (sample) /etc/crontab entries:
45 * * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.portage && /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.portage 25 8,20 * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.distfiles && /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.distfiles #3 1 * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/cvsup-freebsd && /usr/local/bin/cvsup-freebsd >/dev/null 3 3 * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/apt-mirror && /usr/local/bin/apt-mirror >/dev/null 5 2 * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.release && /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.release 5 3 * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/suse.all && /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/suse.all 5 4 * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.experimental && /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.experimental 5 19 * * * test -x /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.snapshot && /usr/local/bin/mirror-scripts/gentoo.snapshot
Musashi stores the package-info on one of our RAID arrays.
For part two, nelson will NFS-mount that same RAID array with the now-updated packages, and re-serve it to the client-machines.  Nelson runs rsyncd to listen for incoming (rsync) connection requests.  Typically, these incoming requests are triggered by the existence of an update-script file in /etc/cron.daily/.  For a Gentoo machine, this file is emergesync and looks like: 
 hostname ~ # cat /etc/cron.daily/emergesync
 #!/bin/bash
 emerge -q --nospinner --sync > /dev/null 2>&1