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I hope I am posting this to the correct mailing lists. The |
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gentoo-servers and gentoo-admin mailing lists seem appropriate. |
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I am looking at deploying a large scale installation of systems running |
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Gentoo. (Large scale being 200-300 systems) Currently, I am mainly |
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concerned with how to handle portage and packages. |
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My current thinking is to have a limited portage tree that only contains |
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ebuilds needed by the systems. Included in this portage tree will be |
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ebuilds for custom software packages. The systems will sync off of this |
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custom maintained portage tree. I would like binary packages to be |
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available from a central repository and not have gcc on the systems. I |
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would like to avoid mounting a network file system. Am I on the best |
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path? |
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Functionally, systems will be imaged the minimal base image via |
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systemimager. After that, packages will be deployed via emerge. The |
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packages will be precompiled and available. On going, packages will be |
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updated and deployed via emerge. |
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Please provide experience or ideas on: |
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1) Creating and maintaining a minimal gentoo image? |
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2) Managing portage and packages for a large scale gentoo environment? |
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Thanks, |
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Joe Rizzo |
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