Re: [gentoo-server] Centralized Gentoo (build -> push/pull) to multiple architectures

[Michael Crute]

On 10/19/05, Robert Larson <robert@×××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has information on a good method to centrally
> build
> and push packages out to machines with Gentoo. I have multiple machines
> setup under multiple processor types, and up until now I have been
> executing
> upgrades on the machines themselves. Since these are production machines,
> I
> would like to set up another machine that acts as a compile/install
> machine.
>
> This might be compareable to a "gold server", as described at
> infrastructures.org <http://infrastructures.org>. I don't suppose I could
> get around this using distcc?
>
> Configuration management is another issue. As it is, I have cfengine
> setup,
> though it is not setup to work with portage and I can't really see these
> two
> coming together nicely. Maybe I could create a patch for dispatch-conf...
>
> Mind you, I have no idea on where to even start on something like this, so
> any
> thoughts, ideas, or information would be helpful.
>
>
You could use one server to build binary packages and then emerge them on
the systems that need the upgrades, saves a lot of resources over running
the compile on each machine. Not sure how to handle the multiple archs
however, perhaps you could write some scripts to "change out" your build
environment on the build machine and re-build the packages for each arch.
That approach should be as simple as changing out your /etc/make.conf file
if all the servers use the same build profile otherwise it's going to
involve a bit more work.

-Mike

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