Gentoo rsync with SSH tunnel Actually we can use HTTP port for updating Gentoo portage,but for much leading edge portage,I opt to tunnel it (with the risk I being warned for bandwith hogging ;->) why? i thought emerge-webrsync has the less update portage su -c 'ssh -fgN2L 873:rsync.au.gentoo.org:873 me@myshell.org' edit /etc/make.conf,put SYNC=" rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage/ " najmi # nmap -p873 localhost Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-05-30 20:57 MYT Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PORT STATE SERVICE 873/tcp open rsync Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.131 seconds then emerge --sync it works for me. :->
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