Re: [gentoo-dev] System management - Portage management

[M Butcher]

Seems like you should be able to do something clever by comparing a file list 
of <master>:/var/db/pkg to <slave>:/var/db/pkg. You'd still have to (or "be 
able to") manage different config files for each, but this would help keep 
applications, versions, features, etc. the same.

Matt

On Friday 22 February 2002 08:28 am, you wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2002 jboyens@××××××××.org wrote:
> > I'm seriously considering using Gentoo for my office, but I need to
> > figure out some ideas on how to get the 8 boxes to "sync-up". I need
> > the applications to be the same. Versions, apps installed, features,
> > etc. Pretty much I want 8 boxes exactly the same with some minor
> > config changes. We mount our /home off of an NFS mount, so that gives
> > us concurrent settings and the like. Any suggestions on how to keep
> > the packages updated and the same?
>
> Appoint one of the machines as "master" and have it do updates (I advise
> you to do that manually for safety). Then someway copy the files of your
> "master" system to all the slaves. You can write some script for doing the
> updating. Basically rsync could do most of the job. It doesn't delete old
> files though, but
>
> find / -xdev >filelist
>
> on the master and
>
> find / -xdev >slavelist
>
> on the slaves and than a compare
>
> cat filelist slavelist |sort |uniq -u >filestodelete
>
> and a final
>
> rm `cat filestodelete`
>
> if you are sure (on the slaves of course)
>
> Good luck
>
> Paul