This is something that I am not directly involved, but I would be interested in hearing what other think. One of the departments at my school is looking to deploy fink across about 120 machines which is about 1/2 desktops that are aways on the network and 1/2 laptops that will come and go from the wired and wireless networks along with going to sleep. The admins feel they need to maintain a global fink that they maintain that all of the users can count on. They also want to let laptop users have their own fink tree in say /sw.
So the questions are: * Has any group done this before and what lessons are you willing to share? * How would you go about this if you had the freedom to do it anyway you want? * If you kept a network fink tree how would you export it to machines? Appleshare? NFS? AFS? SMB :) What issues are likely to crop up... e.g. lots of stale mounts with NFS? * What about those writable directories? If you have an apache server from fink, it wants to write into /finkdir/var... If you did NFS, you would probably want to do a readonly export right? * I know that all the binaries are supposed to be the same across platforms, but would a big roll out effectively require separate G5 and G4 trees (supporting the old G3's around here would not be worth it) * Would you just have machines periodically rsync in the debs and list of packages from a machine and have only local fink installs? * What else does this bring to mind? Thanks, -kurt ===== http://schwehr.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
