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Yes I was going to suggest something similar. We only have 6 desktop |
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users at work right now but we all share the same /usr/portage via NFS. |
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So all ebuilds and distfiles are from the same source. It seems silly |
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to be re-downloading distfiles to every machine. |
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Don. |
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:17:02PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:09:03AM +1000, Ron O'Hara wrote: |
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> > I may have missed something in all the docs, but as far as I can see |
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> > there is what should be a fairly simple enhancement to portage that |
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> > would help considerably in making Gentoo more practical in larger |
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> > deployments. |
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> I do it in the same way that I handle FreeBSD systems. I have a single |
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> copy of the tree on a read-only NFS mount. I also have a minimal overlay |
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> tree that is also on a read-only NFS mount with some custom packages. I |
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> can manipulate that copy as I see fit, and it's already at all the |
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> machines. |
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> I have 26 machines at work currently running Gentoo, 6 of those are |
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> workstations and the rest servers. I'm actually going to be migrating |
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> the workstations back to Redhat due to pressure from users, but the |
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> servers are staying Gentoo. |
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> Robin Hugh Johnson |
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