On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:46, Ron OHara wrote: > Lisa Seelye wrote: > > >On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:00, Ron OHara wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I want to raise an issue resulting from my experience so far in using > >>Gentoo as the basis of production systems. Some may ask why? - but > >>basically 'portage' seems to offer the very best framework for ongoing > >>maintenance/admin of systems, though it's not perfect in that role. > >> > >> > > > >There are a couple things you may want to look into. > > > >First, have you considered setting up your own rsync repository? > >Second, how about using PORTAGE_OVERLAY to save ebuilds. > > > > > > > > > An rsync repository is another part of the production deployment issues, > (especially for bandwidth issues) but ideally the overall process should > not force me to duplicate the managment effort that already goes into > maintaining the Gentoo portage 'repository'. That work is already being > done so it seems silly to have to manually administer a downstream > repository just to preserve 'old' ebuilds - and even then, the true > repository of which ebuilds are needed for a specific system is held on > that system .. not on another server. > > To a degree, the same thing applies to the PORTAGE_OVERLAY setting - > that tree may be a suitable place to preserve older ebuilds that are > being removed from the central portage, but I dont want to maintain it > manually on hundreds of systems.
Two words... NFS mounts =] > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a penguin?
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