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crocket
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 Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 4:40 am Post subject: With a build machine, slow machines can run gentoo. |
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Only with 4GB, compiling GUI packages was not possible. My laptop's CPU is slow, too.
Thus, I extracted stage3 archive into folders on a fast build machine and created commands that execute commands in the folders.
- sudo chroot-machine1 emerge -uDN @world
- sudo chroot-machine2 emerge -uDN @world
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rsyncd runs on the build machine and serves as a remote binhost for slow machines.
/etc/portage/binrepos.conf
| Code: | [main-binhost]
priority=9999
sync-uri = rsync://[ipv6-address]:port/machine1-binhost-module |
Now, gentoo is useable on slow machines. |
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Moved from Portage & Programming to Documentation, Tips & Tricks as its not a support question
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DeadlySyns
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 9:30 pm Post subject: Re: With a build machine, slow machines can run gentoo. |
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| crocket wrote: | Only with 4GB, compiling GUI packages was not possible. My laptop's CPU is slow, too.
Thus, I extracted stage3 archive into folders on a fast build machine and created commands that execute commands in the folders.
- sudo chroot-machine1 emerge -uDN @world
- sudo chroot-machine2 emerge -uDN @world
- ...
rsyncd runs on the build machine and serves as a remote binhost for slow machines.
/etc/portage/binrepos.conf
| Code: | [main-binhost]
priority=9999
sync-uri = rsync://[ipv6-address]:port/machine1-binhost-module |
Now, gentoo is useable on slow machines. |
There is a program called DistCC which is popular in these situations (indeed, it's the *only way* to build in some cases). I have an ancient SPARC server and a brand new 3700x. Cross compiling with DistCC saves me about a week of compiling.
If you don't want to down your main machine building for the slower one, and if you run linux on your main desktop, I advise you to look into DistCC. |
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