On Wednesday 28 October 2009 02:28:43 James wrote: > PS, if one of you really smart guys figures out mass/parallel > upgrades, then I'd use that, even set up my own server > to keep it efficient. I'm not smart enough (not enough time > at current mental aptitude) to set all of that up, unless > somebody else does the foundational work..... > > But I very much like the concept. Upgrade a master system. > Test it. Then push your own binaries/files to the other systems > you manage. Somebody figures that out, i.e. works out the bugs, > Gentoo is going mainstream...... If someone did that, they could > just put their admin scripts and settings in an ebuild. Then users > could just emerge that ebuild and set the list of installed packages. > VERY COOL. >
All that already exists and is fully supported by portage. Build your packages on one central machine and pull them from the workstations. "man emerge" and search for BINHOST. The only catch is to define the various settings (USE, CHOST, CFLAGS) to something compatible with all your machines. This is not a big deal, it's the kind of decisions a binary distro must make and those work fine -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
