Re: [gentoo-dev] Release/Stable/Dev

[Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 2:43 pm, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> This is more of a "how does this work" question:
>
> I notice so much activity on this list all the time with new packages
> and new ideas and new ebuilds, etc. etc... And I realize that the idea
> of a "release version" of Gentoo isn't the same as RedHat or Mandrake
> where there is a snapshot in time of a code base that is deemed a
> "release", its sort of this every-growing and changing repository of
> ebuilds.
>
> This is cool and everything, but it also makes it hard for people that
> need to get a "stable release quality" version to say slap on a
> production server... So for example, if I download Gentoo 1.4, and
> install it today, and my coworker downloads gentoo 1.4 and installs it 2
> weeks from now, we *might* have different systems cause when he emerged
> his original system, some of the packages had changed... (is this an
> accurate assessment?)
>
> How do I combat this? Say if I'm interested in a rock-solid snapshot of
> Gentoo without going through an ungodly amount of administrative setup
> and mirroring of the snapshot etc.?

The administrative overhead of doing this is small, and well worth the effort.

1. use rsync to take a copy of today's portage into a directory on one of your 
servers. In this example I use /var/mirror/portage-stable.

2. create an /etc/rsync.d like the one below, and run rsync --deamon.

3. on every other stable server, change their make.conf to include:
SYNC="rsync://my.local.rsync.server/portage-stable

4. you probably also should set up a distfiles archive, so that you can still 
install old things when the real portage has moved on.

5. I am still uncertain about the best way to handle critical updates to these 
stable systems. Currently I have a seperate rsync mirror which contains a 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY directory. That contains copies of ebuilds from the real 
portage.



my /etc/rsync.d is:

pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
timeout = 150
[gentoo-portage-stable]
    path = /var/mirror/portage
    comment = Gentoo Portage Tree
[gentoo-portage]
    path = /var/mirror/portage-stable
    comment = Stable Snapshot of Gentoo Portage Tree





--
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list