korki’s corner

As stated previously kolga offers a variety of gentoo services (remember the gentoo propaganda ). The main gentoo services offered are;

• portage tree rsync server
• the whole gentoo dist (current) file tree (yeah the whole 120Gbyte file tree) needed for updates and normal install

Both of the trees are synced with the gentoo server 4 times a day (@ 0100 , @0700, @1300, and @ 1900) In order to use the gentoo services offered you have to follow these steps (need superuser privileges);

1. Setup the portage tree sync
   1. This is done by editing file /etc/make.conf
   2. alter the SYNC variable depending on the dns resolves you are capable of
   3. you may use one of the following statements (you may use the last if you don’t have pwmn dns lookups);
      1. SYNC=”rsync://gentoo.kolga.pwmn/gentoo-portage”
      2. SYNC=”rsync://gentoo.korki.pwmn/gentoo-portage”
      3. SYNC=”rsync://10.140.4.1/gentoo-portage”
2. Specify the internal wireless mirror to use for source files retrieval
   1. again edit file /etc/make.conf
   2. alter the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable with one of the following (determine by the result of you DNS lookups the safe choice is always the third );
      1. GENTOO_MIRRORS=”http://gentoo.korki.pwmn ftp://gentoo.korki.pwmn”
      2. GENTOO_MIRRORS=”http://gentoo.kolga.pwmn ftp://gentoo.kolga.pwmn”
      3. GENTOO_MIRRORS=”ftp://10.140.4.4″
3. Test if everything went ok with;
   1. Test if you can sync with the local portage tree with;
      1. # emerge –sync
   2. Test if you can download sources with;
      1. # emerge -vat gentoolkit