I hope I am posting this to the correct mailing lists. The gentoo-servers and gentoo-admin mailing lists seem appropriate.
I am looking at deploying a large scale installation of systems running Gentoo. (Large scale being 200-300 systems) Currently, I am mainly concerned with how to handle portage and packages. My current thinking is to have a limited portage tree that only contains ebuilds needed by the systems. Included in this portage tree will be ebuilds for custom software packages. The systems will sync off of this custom maintained portage tree. I would like binary packages to be available from a central repository and not have gcc on the systems. I would like to avoid mounting a network file system. Am I on the best path? Functionally, systems will be imaged the minimal base image via systemimager. After that, packages will be deployed via emerge. The packages will be precompiled and available. On going, packages will be updated and deployed via emerge. Please provide experience or ideas on: 1) Creating and maintaining a minimal gentoo image? 2) Managing portage and packages for a large scale gentoo environment? Thanks, Joe Rizzo -- [email protected] mailing list
