Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

[Grant]

>> > I'm soaking up a lot of your time (again).  I'll return with any real
>> > Gentoo questions I run into and to run down the final plan before I
>> > execute it.  Thanks so much for your help.  Not sure what I'd do
>> > without you. :)
>>
>> I'm sure Neil would step in if I'm hit by a bus
>> He'd say the same things, and use about 1/4 of the words it takes me ;-)
>
> So far in this thread, I've managed about 0/4 of the words you've used...
> Oh damn!
>
> But yes, a build host and adding --usepkg=y to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in
> make.conf gives a massive speed increase. Run the build host in an easily
> recovered environment, like a VM, and you don't even have to monitor the
> world update on it, just run a script in the early hours that does emerge
> --sync && emerge -uXX @world and check your mailbox for errors before
> running emerge on the "clients". The use clusterssh or dsh to update them
> all at once.

I'm hoping to update everything on my own laptop before I have the
laptop clients update.  If I install everything on my own laptop that
any of the clients have installed, I should be able to avoid any
update trouble on the clients.  clusterssh or dsh sounds like a good
method for updating the clients.  Basically, once I update everything
on my laptop and it looks good, I want to be able to send the clients
a signal to update as well.

- Grant