All, > Perhaps this is an argument for a git based portage tree? Master can > stay as the current status quo and anyone who wants to can maintain a > branch or fork which points to a slightly different subset of the tree? >
I'm starting to put together a portage/stable server configuration for a large number of gentoo VM's that will eventually be hosted on a VMware ESX 4.1U1 cluster - with the goal of limiting major changes to once/year and otherwise only applying security/minimum necessary updates. I doubt it will be easy but I'm doing my best at it :) As part of that I'm maintaining on github several related repositories, including portage mask/use/config files, cluster management utilities, etc. https://github.com/deploylinux I've also started to document work on my blog: http://www.deploylinux.net/matt I'm not currently planning to utilize a separate overlay for packages/ebuilds, but it's not out of the question. I'd be happy to work with any other devs w/ similiar interests or production networks to manage.....github makes group development relatively easy. MattM -- Matthew Marlowe / 858-400-7430 / DeployLinux Consulting, Inc Professional Linux Hosting and Systems Administration Services www.deploylinux.net * m...@deploylinux.net 'MattM' @ irc.freenode.net