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Hi folks, |
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I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop |
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deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of). |
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As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but |
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quickly ran into scaling problems and the lack of tools to help. |
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There is no obvious way to freeze a Portage tree (or to design a |
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specific profile) for testing on a golden workstation, to build a set of |
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update packages (ServicePack) and push it to the workstations, or to |
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have centralized accountability of what's installed where. There is no |
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easy way to avoid having to keep a synchronized copy of the portage tree |
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on all systems, even when using yourown-binaries. |
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With automatic deployments, would we run into difficult-to-solve |
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etc-update problems ? Should/could the ServicePack system take care of |
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that ? |
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Even in a simpler setup (preprod > production) we don't have the tools |
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to push a software configuration change from a test machine to a |
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production one. |
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What tools are missing ? Is it our job to provide them ? Can it |
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reasonably be done ? Am I just wrong to want to use Gentoo in that |
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direction ? |
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Next week: Gentoo-as-a-metadistribution tools :) |
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Koon |
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