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On Wednesday 20 November 2002 2:43 pm, Riyad Kalla wrote: |
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> This is more of a "how does this work" question: |
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> I notice so much activity on this list all the time with new packages |
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> and new ideas and new ebuilds, etc. etc... And I realize that the idea |
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> of a "release version" of Gentoo isn't the same as RedHat or Mandrake |
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> where there is a snapshot in time of a code base that is deemed a |
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> "release", its sort of this every-growing and changing repository of |
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> ebuilds. |
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> This is cool and everything, but it also makes it hard for people that |
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> need to get a "stable release quality" version to say slap on a |
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> production server... So for example, if I download Gentoo 1.4, and |
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> install it today, and my coworker downloads gentoo 1.4 and installs it 2 |
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> weeks from now, we *might* have different systems cause when he emerged |
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> his original system, some of the packages had changed... (is this an |
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> accurate assessment?) |
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> How do I combat this? Say if I'm interested in a rock-solid snapshot of |
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> Gentoo without going through an ungodly amount of administrative setup |
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> and mirroring of the snapshot etc.? |
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The administrative overhead of doing this is small, and well worth the effort. |
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1. use rsync to take a copy of today's portage into a directory on one of your |
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servers. In this example I use /var/mirror/portage-stable. |
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2. create an /etc/rsync.d like the one below, and run rsync --deamon. |
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3. on every other stable server, change their make.conf to include: |
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SYNC="rsync://my.local.rsync.server/portage-stable |
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4. you probably also should set up a distfiles archive, so that you can still |
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install old things when the real portage has moved on. |
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5. I am still uncertain about the best way to handle critical updates to these |
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stable systems. Currently I have a seperate rsync mirror which contains a |
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY directory. That contains copies of ebuilds from the real |
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portage. |
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my /etc/rsync.d is: |
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pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid |
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timeout = 150 |
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[gentoo-portage-stable] |
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path = /var/mirror/portage |
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comment = Gentoo Portage Tree |
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[gentoo-portage] |
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path = /var/mirror/portage-stable |
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comment = Stable Snapshot of Gentoo Portage Tree |
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