Making build times faster on Gentoo. [solved]
What I had in mind was having a disk image and configuration profile that would boot my linode into something like a LiveCD that would have minimal software and allow me to mount my regular partitions and then upload and extract the tarball of my image that was built on my own PC.
Has anyone ever done something like this before and have advice or reading material on the subject?
Erik
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That being said, I can also download these tarballs and restore them to my very fast home PC, chroot into it (ala "Faketoo"), and then do all my package updates from there. Of course, using this method means you have to actually bring your server down to perform the restore operation, but it usually doesn't take very long and it improves update times exponentially.
Another thing I've done with promising results is to do the Faketoo style restore on my home system and then build binary packages. This way I can just have emerge use the binary package tarballs to perform updates. Doing it this way means you don't have to reboot your server!
Hopefully this will serve to reduce the load on some hosts
Maybe I can work up a HOWTO on the subject
@erik.elmore:
Maybe I can work up a HOWTO on the subject
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That would be awesome, post it on the wiki if you get the chance, I'm interested to see how you have it setup.