> How do other admins manage 10+ gentoo systems? syncing each > one daily is not a very good idea and waste lots of bandwidth.
Sure it's a great idea as long as you set it up correctly... Internally I have one gentoo system acting as the rsync host for the intranet gentoo boxen. It 'emerge --sync's daily (as the gentoo sync'ing process recommends via the etiquette doco); the intranent boxen sync daily from the local mirror, but the external rsync system only sees me doing it once. I'm also using http-replicator to ensure that the downloads are only handled once yet available to all internal systems. The internal rsync host setup can be referenced at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror. The http-replicator setup can be found at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator. The great part about the setup is that one server handles everything for the internal systems even if the internal systems are using different package sets (i.e. the server doesn't run X, but the proxy eliminates the need to re-download the X components individually for the intranet systems). It's really sweet and provides very fast support to the internal systems while reducing the effective downloads from the internet to the barest of minimums. -- [email protected] mailing list
