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John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu> writes: |
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> Some requirement thoughts: A network of gentoo hosts should have |
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> only one portage processing server and any number of installation |
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> leafs. |
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this is what I'm doing today, so I'll agree. :-) |
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> First of all portage needs to easily handle more than one |
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> installation. Second the "leaf-installations" should have a very |
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> strict minimum requiremnts. Third redundancy is probably |
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> important. The information to restore a lost "leaf" should be |
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> availible on booth the portage host and on the leaf it self. |
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this is easily doable with something like rdist. most things under |
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unix are files. keeping this in mind when working with unix is a |
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very good idea. |
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at work, me and one other guy maintain about 150-odd linux boxes |
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with rdist and a little bit extra. the idea is to rdist / with a |
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few appropriate exceptions. we also maintain a configuration |
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database (flat files under /etc/config) that gets rdisted as well. |
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this means that all configuration for all the machines is available |
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everywhere -- which is nice even though we have tape backups. |
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Terje |
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