On Friday 31 October 2003 4:31, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: > I am writing this E-mail on Gentoo, with Kmail compiled from source, it > took me 4 days to install all the staff, but I finally have exactly what I > want. The problem is: I am new to gentoo and I don't know how to manage ~30 > machines with gentoo, compiling from source on every machine is out of the > question, some machine will take weeks to finish, I know about stage3, but > still I will have to compile some things and create my own stage3.
You can set up a machine (or group of them, using distcc+ccache) as your central 'portage server' so to speak. It/them would compile updated packages for one or several reference system images kept on its hd. The other boxes can then configure portage to download the binary packages it creates and never compile anything themselves. It could also serve as a central portage-tree-server and be the only machine that does emerge sync against the outside world, so you can better control what updates get distributed. This works well if there are comparatively few configurations your machines can be divided into, otherwise the 'portage server' will spend lots of time compiling the same update for different machines. > I don't know how to handle automatic security updates without compiling > either. No really automatic way to do this yet AFAIK. It's an often requested feature and I remember people working on it recently, you might want to ask on gentoo-dev. HTH, -- Dan Armak Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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