On Wednesday 19 October 2005 17:25, Robert Larson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has information on a good method to centrally
> build and push packages out to machines with Gentoo.  I have multiple
> machines setup under multiple processor types, and up until now I have been
> executing upgrades on the machines themselves.  Since these are production
> machines, I would like to set up another machine that acts as a
> compile/install machine.
>
> This might be compareable to a "gold server", as described at
> infrastructures.org.  I don't suppose I could get around this using distcc?
Nope, distcc is only for distributed compiling ...

You probably want to use some chroots and setup some sort of http/ftp-site for 
that packages which the gold-servers could fetch then ... (via the BINPKG 
features of portage, see man emerge / man make.conf for details)

> Thanks!
>
> Robert

Good luck with that.

Christian
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Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Linux Developer (VServer)

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