On Wednesday 19 October 2005 22:22, Ian P. Christian wrote: > On Wednesday 19 October 2005 20:15, theboywho wrote: > > If you would like more information, I would be happy to help. > > Absolutly fantastic, I've been meaning to sort this for ages. > > I myself would *love* to see this expanded upon. I could setup a wiki for > this, or the gentoo wiki might be the best place to do it. Or, if you > like, just pencil it out in a tiny bit more detail and I'll document it, I > need to do this for my company.
I guess the gentoo-wiki would be the best place. > > Questions: do you use cron? how do you report when servers need new > packages? so you automatically install packages? how do you handle > restarting services on the servers? do you have different profiles like... > p4-webserver, amd64-mailserver etc... etc. etc. > > Kind Regards, In regards to doing it automatically - I never did that. I have portage update via cron, and then email me a list of the packages that needed updating (i.e. the output of 'emerge -uvp world'. I keep separate chroots on my desktop machine for all the other machines I have in /mnt/chroots/<machinename> then another directory for the separate packages folder /mnt/packages/<machinename> I do the package updates manually in each chroot with the 'buildpkgs' feature turned on, and then on the actual machines mount the /mnt/packages/<machinename> directory over /usr/portage/packages using NFS. The automating this is something that I would be willing to look in to. Hope that helps! -- parmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
