Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Gentoo build server

[Kammi Cazze]

I don't know if you know about this neither if it is a solution for you, but 
take a look at it :)

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=755176#755176

Khammi


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>To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
>CC: gentoo-server@l.g.o
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Gentoo build server
>Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:11:21 -0700 (MST)
>
>Joby Walker said:
>
> >>>2) Not running 'emerge sync' from each server is actually harmful to
>the
> >>>server.  You might be able to use 'emerge regen' to mitigate most of
> >>>this, but I haven't investigated it that fully (since I switched from
> >>>NFS /usr/portage to a BINHOST).
> >>
> >> Any chance you could expand on this more? It's starting to sound like
>it
> >> may be more difficult than expected to maintain a central
> >> portage/package
> >> source for all of our servers.
> >>
> >
> > An "emerge sync" runs a lot of maintenance on the /var/db/pkg and
> > /var/cache/edb directories.  As packages are relabeled or recategorized,
> > "emerge sync" re-orgs your /var caches to reflect the new structure.  If
> > this maintenance doesn't happen you will start getting dependancy errors
> > when trying to install a package.  This happened to me with Perl.
>
>So, if each system should have emerge sync ran on it to keep these caches
>in good shape, then /usr/portage will be updated on each host too. If the
>administrators of these other hosts decide to (or forget the process),
>they could bypass our package server and freely install from their own
>local portage tree.
>
>But that might not be a real concern. As long as BINHOST is honored,
>binary packages from the master server will still be used. /usr/portage
>will be basically unused in this case, but still maintained.
>
>I guess we're just not lessening the need to avoid maintaining
>/usr/portage on each host. Is there no way to do that?
>
>It might not be a big deal, if we make sure that our build server is the
>source for these syncs.
>
>DS

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