[gentoo-server] Centralized Gentoo (build -> push/pull) to multiple architectures

[Robert Larson]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has information on a good method to centrally build 
and push packages out to machines with Gentoo.  I have multiple machines 
setup under multiple processor types, and up until now I have been executing 
upgrades on the machines themselves.  Since these are production machines, I 
would like to set up another machine that acts as a compile/install machine.  

This might be compareable to a "gold server", as described at 
infrastructures.org.  I don't suppose I could get around this using distcc?

Configuration management is another issue.  As it is, I have cfengine setup, 
though it is not setup to work with portage and I can't really see these two 
coming together nicely.  Maybe I could create a patch for dispatch-conf...

Mind you, I have no idea on where to even start on something like this, so any 
thoughts, ideas, or information would be helpful.

Thanks!

Robert
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