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hi Mlkey |
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I am not sure I understood your utility correctly. |
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the thing I want is setup a build server, then I can install my new server |
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from that box, let's say , a custermized and tested |
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stage3 image. |
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Is this the exact thing your utility doing? |
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thanks for your time |
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--Eric |
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On 4/9/06, MIkey <mikey@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Technomancer wrote: |
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> > I choosed Gentoo because using other distros I could not build the |
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> > system the way I wanted without headache. |
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> > On most cases there was the necessity of package compilation, ignoring |
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> > the package management systems of most distros. This sounds like chaos |
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> > to me. |
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> > Using Portage I coul add and remove features of programs like Postfix |
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> > without making some ugly workaround. |
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> I migrated to Gentoo for the exact same reasons, I needed to be able to |
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> customize deployments. In my opinion this (portage) is the most |
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> significant strength of Gentoo. |
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> It is not, however, without its challenges. In my experience it is pure |
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> insanity to attempt to maintain upgrades directly on servers. You will |
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> definitely want to maintain a deployment test environment to work through |
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> any problems after syncing your portage tree before attempting to apply |
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> upgrades to production servers. I wrote a utility to do this - |
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> http://badpenguins.com/source/gentoo-buildhoster/ if you are interested in |
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> trying it out. |
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> As far as managing config files and such, I have rarely had problems |
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> managing them via dispatch-conf. There are situations that will bite you |
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> in the ass if you are not careful though, debacles such as forced upgrades |
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> to a new apache config file layout, radically different installations of |
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> php between upgrades, disappearing kernel source ebuilds, and so |
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> on. Hence |
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> my suggestion to do any upgrades in a test environment before pushing them |
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> out to the servers ;) |
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Life is hard |