Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Advice on Gentoo Servers

[Gentoo]

hi Mlkey
I am not sure I understood your utility correctly.
the thing I want is setup a build server, then I can install my new server
from that box, let's say , a custermized and tested
stage3 image.

Is this the exact thing your utility doing?

thanks for your time

--Eric

On 4/9/06, MIkey <mikey@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> Technomancer wrote:
>
> > I choosed Gentoo because using other distros I could not build the
> > system the way I wanted without headache.
> >
> > On most cases there was the necessity of package compilation, ignoring
> > the package management systems of most distros. This sounds like chaos
> > to me.
> >
> > Using Portage I coul add and remove features of programs like Postfix
> > without making some ugly workaround.
>
> I migrated to Gentoo for the exact same reasons, I needed to be able to
> customize deployments.  In my opinion this (portage) is the most
> significant strength of Gentoo.
>
> It is not, however, without its challenges.  In my experience it is pure
> insanity to attempt to maintain upgrades directly on servers.  You will
> definitely want to maintain a deployment test environment to work through
> any problems after syncing your portage tree before attempting to apply
> upgrades to production servers.  I wrote a utility to do this -
> http://badpenguins.com/source/gentoo-buildhoster/ if you are interested in
> trying it out.
>
> As far as managing config files and such, I have rarely had problems
> managing them via dispatch-conf.  There are situations that will bite you
> in the ass if you are not careful though, debacles such as forced upgrades
> to a new apache config file layout, radically different installations of
> php between upgrades, disappearing kernel source ebuilds, and so
> on.  Hence
> my suggestion to do any upgrades in a test environment before pushing them
> out to the servers ;)
>
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