On Thursday 29 October 2009 20:36:27 James wrote: > I have a cluster of Gentoo boxes I'd like to update all at once, along > with emerging specific packages to the servers simultaneously. > > Does anyone have any experience(s) with a good utility for doing this? > I've seen a few scripts online for accomplishing this but I'm not sure > how these scripts would handle the large amount of output that emerge > generates from all the servers simultaneously. > > Thoughts / ideas appreciated.
I thought we answered this for you two days ago? Put the same world and config on every machine, and build everything on one host called the binhost. emerge -k on every machine will pull binary packages from the binhost. This is identical to working with say Ubuntu, except that it's not a maintainer building packages and putting them on a remote repo, it's you doing it and putting the packages on a machine on your local network. clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge -avuND world everywhere -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
