Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintaining production systems - and losing ebuilds

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:46, Ron OHara wrote:
> Lisa Seelye wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:00, Ron OHara wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I want to raise an issue resulting from my experience so far in using
> >>Gentoo as the basis of production systems. Some may ask why? - but
> >>basically 'portage' seems to offer the very best framework for ongoing
> >>maintenance/admin of systems, though it's not perfect in that role.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >There are a couple things you may want to look into.
> >
> >First, have you considered setting up your own rsync repository?
> >Second, how about using PORTAGE_OVERLAY to save ebuilds.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> An rsync repository is another part of the production deployment issues,
> (especially for bandwidth issues) but ideally the overall process should
> not force me to duplicate the managment effort that already goes into
> maintaining the Gentoo portage 'repository'.  That work is already being
> done so it seems silly to have to manually administer a downstream
> repository just to preserve 'old' ebuilds - and even then, the true
> repository of which ebuilds are needed for a specific system is held on
> that system .. not on another server.
>
> To a degree, the same thing applies to the PORTAGE_OVERLAY setting -
> that tree may be a suitable place to preserve older ebuilds that are
> being removed from the central portage, but I dont want to maintain it
> manually on hundreds of systems.

Two words...

NFS mounts

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