Hi, * Celestial Wizard, Monday, December 8, 2003, 8:01:24 AM:
> By boxes I mean both servers and SOE desktops. > Basically our "rules" are standard installs for roles. IE - Firewalls, > File and Print (not many), Web Application, Database, SOE Desktops etc... > On these boxes we also dont install compilers or other development tools > (unless of course its a development server / workstation). > One way to look at this is as images - but not :) > What we want to do is replace our RedHat boxes with Gentoo (for new > installs) due to the EOL announced. > What I am thinking is something akin to the following > - Point each remote box to our "image" server (or for deskops possibly > one out at the client site) to sync a portage tree. (do we just expose > /usr/portage via rync?) > - However what we want to do when we run an emerge [system|world] is to > get binaries instead of source. I've read that you can emerge a binary > with a -K but haven't played with it yet. > - Our distribution server would keep the packages upto date, mostly by > hand at the minute, but someway to separate USE (etc...) settings for > different "profiles" would be nice > What would be involved in doing something like the above? That sounds alot like the "gold"-server approach that has been discussed on the gentoo-sysadmin (now gentoo-server) Mailinglist. You may want to browse their archives and have a look at http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
