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I've currently got about 30 gentoo servers that I need to maintain, and this |
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number will increase significnatly shortly. |
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I would like to move to an automated way of keeping these servers up to date. |
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Firstly, I would like to use binary packages. I initially thought about having |
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a repository pre architecture, and standardising on cflags and use flags - |
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however this isn't feasable if you need to alter the use flags on just one |
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server - installing from the binary package will result in the wrong package |
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being installed. |
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Ideally, there would be a way to make emerge make a hash of the use flags and |
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cflags it's using to compile a package, and then look |
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for /repository/package-<hash> as the binary package - however I'm quite sure |
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this kind of feature doesnt' exist. Perhaps there is an alternative? |
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Also, if I upgrade 30 servers, I certainly don't want to log into each one to |
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do an etc-update on 101 files which I've not ever modified in the first |
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place. |
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How do you manage your servers effectivly? |
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Kind Regards, |
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Ian P. Christian |
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http://pookey.co.uk |
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