Re: [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage

[Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>]

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Hi Ron,

On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:09 pm, Ron O'Hara wrote:
> If it were possible to 'tag' the portage tree with labels at regular
> intervals, and and do an 'emerge sync' with a nominated 'tag' - then you
> would have the equivelant of the fixed points that other distributions
> have when they cut a release CD.

It's an interesting idea ;-)

You might want to have a look at running your own (internal) rsync mirror for 
your Gentoo boxes - and your own (internal) distfiles mirror too.  This gives 
you complete control over what ebuilds your many Gentoo machines will get, 
and ensures that you can roll out software long after it has been removed 
from Gentoo's portage (we delete 'old' files all the time, when we believe 
they're obsolete, which really screws up consistency across a large 
deployment.  However, with your own internal mirror, you can keep these 
ebuilds and their distfiles around long after Gentoo has dropped them!)

Tbh, it's a hack, rather than a nice solid server/client enterprise-ready 
Portage solution, but it's one that does work.

Best regards,
Stu
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