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On Wednesday 19 October 2005 22:22, Ian P. Christian wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 20:15, theboywho wrote: |
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> > If you would like more information, I would be happy to help. |
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> Absolutly fantastic, I've been meaning to sort this for ages. |
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> I myself would *love* to see this expanded upon. I could setup a wiki for |
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> this, or the gentoo wiki might be the best place to do it. Or, if you |
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> like, just pencil it out in a tiny bit more detail and I'll document it, I |
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> need to do this for my company. |
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I guess the gentoo-wiki would be the best place. |
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> Questions: do you use cron? how do you report when servers need new |
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> packages? so you automatically install packages? how do you handle |
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> restarting services on the servers? do you have different profiles like... |
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> p4-webserver, amd64-mailserver etc... etc. etc. |
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> Kind Regards, |
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In regards to doing it automatically - I never did that. I have portage update |
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via cron, and then email me a list of the packages that needed updating (i.e. |
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the output of 'emerge -uvp world'. |
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I keep separate chroots on my desktop machine for all the other machines I |
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have in /mnt/chroots/<machinename> then another directory for the separate |
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packages folder /mnt/packages/<machinename> |
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I do the package updates manually in each chroot with the 'buildpkgs' feature |
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turned on, and then on the actual machines mount |
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the /mnt/packages/<machinename> directory over /usr/portage/packages using |
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NFS. |
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The automating this is something that I would be willing to look in to. |
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Hope that helps! |
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parmi |
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theboywho@×××××××××.com |
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