Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Justin Lambert <justin.lambert@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Servers running gentoo
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:14:39
Message-Id: 4108F82F.3000706@computility.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Servers running gentoo by Barry Shaw
1 Barry,
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3 That definatly does have some good info on it. At least gives me some
4 things to start with and go from there - thanks.
5
6 jl
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8 Barry Shaw wrote:
9 >
10 > |
11 > | I know I can run my own rsync server and have gentoo sync from that and
12 > | I remember seeing you can emerge binary packages made with the buildpkg
13 > | flag. Is there anything inherantly wrong with what I am doing or major
14 > | problems that will arise? Is there any documentation (or posts I
15 > | couldn't find) for this sort of thing that will help me out?
16 > | Tips/tricks/advice?
17 > |
18 >
19 > We've done this for a heap of workstations and made it into an automatic
20 > process. If you intend to maintain an authoritative repository of
21 > binaries then there are a few management problems involved. Its all
22 > documented, along with some scripts at
23 > http://www.scms.waikato.ac.nz/~baz. It may not be relevant to how you
24 > want to maintain your servers, but there might be something there thats
25 > relevant to you (particularly near the end of the doc).
26 >
27 > Baz
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