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Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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| On Sunday 04 July 2004 6:16 pm, Barry Shaw wrote: |
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|>We've got about 250 machines currently gentooed, |
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|>with more to come, so we might be able to offer some insights into large |
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|>scale installations. |
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| Very nice. Yes, I would love to know more about how you're using Gentoo |
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| commercially. |
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Well we're a university, so we aren't commercial as such 8). All of the |
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machines are being installed via a custom script and a binary repository |
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that is used as a canonical source of packages. Additions and removals |
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are performed automatically each night on the clients. We've documented |
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the install process at http://www.scms.waikato.ac.nz/~baz and the |
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scripts are available there also. The nightly maintenance process and |
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scripts aren't yet published but its in the works. If you want a more |
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detailed description let me know and I can send you something offlist |
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(I'm not really sure this list is the right place for this kind of thing). |
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| In the past, I've done some production installs of FreeBSD with success, |
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| but not w/Linux yet. A Gentoo deployment should be more |
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controllable, in |
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| my estimation, than FreeBSD, but there's a lot of work to be done on both |
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| to make them more sane for commercial environments. IMO, the first |
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| priority is just minimizing the rate/amt of change. That's half the |
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| battle. IT folks can't be burdened with the minutae of researching & |
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| testing lots of tiny little package updates. |
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| The "don't rsync" solution is a kludge... we need something a tad more |
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| thoughtful, functional than that. :-) |
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Definitely, thats where I see a stable portage tree as being very useful. |
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| If you don't mind my asking, how many of your Gentoo machines are |
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| workstations? Servers? What kind of work is done on these machines? |
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Most of them are workstations, both lab machines and staff and graduate |
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desktops (they are all maintained in a similar fashion). We've only got |
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a few gentoo servers, mainly since we only started using gentoo here |
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less than 6 months ago and we're only upgrading the servers as they are |
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replaced (if it aint broke.....). |
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Baz |
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