Setting up a Gentoo Repository on a Debian Host

Question

I have a debian host, on which i want to setup a private Gentoo Repository for my college. I have started syncing the repository by a simple bash script whose snippet is as follows :

RSYNC="/usr/bin/rsync"
OPTS="--quiet --recursive --links --perms --times -D --delete --timeout=300"
SRC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
DST="

What else I need to do for setting up the repository?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

Installing Gentoo is the answer to very many problems, especially this one--

However, if you are already programmatically syncing your portage tree, do you need anything else other than the rsync?

All straight from the docs:

Your shell script, run via cron:

RSYNC="/usr/bin/rsync"
OPTS="--quiet --recursive --links --perms --times -D --delete --timeout=300"
SRC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
DST="/space/gentoo/portage/"

echo "Started update at" `date` >> $0.log 2>&1
logger -t rsync "re-rsyncing the gentoo-portage tree"
${RSYNC} ${OPTS} ${SRC} ${DST} >> $0.log 2>&1

In rsyncd.conf:

pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
max connections = 5
use chroot = yes
uid = nobody
gid = nobody
# Optional: restrict access to your Gentoo boxes
hosts allow = 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.0/24
hosts deny  = *

[gentoo-portage]
path=/space/gentoo/portage
comment=Portage tree

Then start the rsync daemon like rsync --daemon

I haven't tested any of this, but it should get you pretty close... Unless you want to install portage right under a non-gentoo distro?