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On Sunday 20 of May 2007 20:29:18 Charles Duffy wrote: |
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> I'm looking at replacing SuSE SLES9 with Gentoo for an enterprise |
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> application (for reasons of flexibility and licensing) (no, we don't |
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> have an enterprise application budget -- just the reliability |
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> requirements; yaaay, startups!). We're looking to be able to deploy and |
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> manage hundreds of geographically distributed servers. |
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I'm using some custom made gentoo setup, it's not perfect but works fine for |
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me (>30 gentoo servers and >50 gentoo vservers in different locations) |
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Every gentoo server has mounted snapshot of portage tree compressed by |
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squashfs = 40MB (vservers are using bind mounted version), it's extended by |
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custom overlays (security, updates, etc). I can do 'big' upgrade of gentoo by |
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putting newer portage snapshot. |
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I've made custom gentoo profiles (f.e. amd64-default-20061004) which are |
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setting most things like cflags, use flags, overlays and inherits real |
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profile at the end. Also I'm extending it by creating my subprofiles to force |
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installing packages, for example: |
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x86-default-20061004/h (vserver hardware node) |
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vserver-default-20061004/www/php5 (www vservers with php5) |
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vserver-default-20061004/mail (mail vservers) |
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Most servers/vservers have /var/lib/portage/world empty, all packages are |
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forced by putting it into 'system'. Also, /etc/make.conf on all servers are |
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empty too :) |
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After emerge (compile) of package, it's sent into binhost server (via scp |
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in /etc/portage/bashrc) and other servers in same profile are fetching binary |
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version. |
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This solution is a little bit tricky, have some issues but after all - makes |
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many things faster and easier for me. |
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regards |
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Tomasz Szymczak _.-. jgs |
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GCS/M d- s-:- a-- C+++$ UL++$>++++$ P++ L++>++++ E W++ N+ w O+ '( ^{_} ( |
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PS+ PE !Y PGP+ t- X- R tv-- b++>+++ DI D>+++ G e>++++ h! r- y? `~\`-----'\ |
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Umys³ sprawia, ¿e wszystko siê zmienia, ¿eby upozorowaæ up³yw czasu )_)---)_) |
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