I've currently got about 30 gentoo servers that I need to maintain, and this number will increase significnatly shortly.
I would like to move to an automated way of keeping these servers up to date. Firstly, I would like to use binary packages. I initially thought about having a repository pre architecture, and standardising on cflags and use flags - however this isn't feasable if you need to alter the use flags on just one server - installing from the binary package will result in the wrong package being installed. Ideally, there would be a way to make emerge make a hash of the use flags and cflags it's using to compile a package, and then look for /repository/package-<hash> as the binary package - however I'm quite sure this kind of feature doesnt' exist. Perhaps there is an alternative? Also, if I upgrade 30 servers, I certainly don't want to log into each one to do an etc-update on 101 files which I've not ever modified in the first place. How do you manage your servers effectivly? Kind Regards, Ian P. Christian http://pookey.co.uk -- [email protected] mailing list
