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Hi Ron, |
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Currently there is no support yet for what you want, except when you do it |
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yourself. But we are actively looking into providing for an "enterprise |
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gentoo". This version of gentoo would have real releases every say half |
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year (the terms have not been decided yet), further it would provide |
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security fixes and fixes for serious bugs. But it would not provide newer |
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versions of applications to provide more stability. Security fixes would |
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be backported if at all possible. |
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Expect work on this to become visible in the comming months. |
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For now, for enterprise systems you probably want to have a server that |
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maintains private snapshots. (It is easy to set the specific tree in the |
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make.conf file, and multiple trees can be offered on the server). You |
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would then need to monitor security problems, and merge the fixed ebuilds |
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in the snapshot trees. This indeed is some work, but I believe in most |
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enterprise enviroments such an update would involve some testing too. |
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For syncing the server trees, please take a look at the rsync mirror |
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documentation. In those environments it is most often more applicable to |
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use rsync directly instead of through portage. That also allows for custom |
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locations. You might also want to exclude parts of the tree like games. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo developer |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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