Thanks for the response, Alan. I haven't posted on this alias in many months, so it wasn't me who asked 2 days ago. ;) (nor do I see a similar thread from two days ago, but it may have been sent to the bit bucket, so I can't be certain)
Thanks! -j On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
