> I have most of this done already... I guess what I am really looking for > is package management / security updates and building new machines.
I'm sure I'm not dealing with the sizes you are, but I'm running gentoo on a number of my systems at home. To that end I've got a 'gentoo server' that's responsible for a) being the local gentoo rsync mirror (to serve portage updates to the internal client systems w/o hitting the network for each) and b) building packages into binary format (as the client systems are similar architecture, one system builds binaries and the binaries are emerged on the client systems). In this way you'll have a single system doing all of the work of maintaining synchronization with Gentoo and the client systems benefiting from that work. Since my client systems tend to have spare cycles, I've enabled distcc on the internal network so the actual build process is distributed, reducing the actual impact to the server and reducing the package build times. It's actually pretty sweet ;-) -- [email protected] mailing list
