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On 1/19/18 10:03 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> On 1/19/18 9:45 AM, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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>>> On 18/01/18 23:36, Duncan wrote: |
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>>>> Anthony G. Basile posted on Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:46:53 -0500 as excerpted: |
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>>>>> I'm trying to design an update system for many identical Gentoo systems. |
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>>>>> Using a binhost is obvious, but there are still problems with this |
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>>>>> approach. |
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>>>>> |
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>>> I'd suggest go for a semi diskless OS - boot them from one central image |
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>>> with an individual overlay filesystem with local customisations. NFS |
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>>> mount the common directories. |
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>>> you just have a one central host to build for and don't need to worry |
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>>> about portage everywhere. |
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>>> Worked ok with a small number of mythtv frontends. |
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>>> |
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>> It doesn't work if you have a WAN; NFS needs low latencies between the NFS |
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>> server and the client or you will have a bad time. |
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> Zac pretty much nailed the requirements in bug #644990. You should not |
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> need the portage tree at all, neither locally nor via any network |
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> filesystem. He mentions there that it is currently possible via "a |
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> dummy profile", but I'm not sure what he means by that yet or how to set |
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> one up. I'll read his bug #640318 and try to figure it out. |
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> Thanks guys, I'm glad people at least recognized the usefulness of such |
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> a possibility. |
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Okay, I have a workable solution to my question. I was able to get |
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binhost working with a portage tree containing ONLY /profiles and |
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/eclass. That's 12MB and 2.8MB in size, respectively, and I can |
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probably dump a bunch of the unused profile directories slimming that |
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down. With just those two directories in PORTDIR, emerge -K pulls down |
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the update packages from BINHOST and installs them. |
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@zac any comments about this approach? Is it likely to break? |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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