From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30260 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Aug 2003 22:16:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 32420 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2003 22:16:00 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert Reply-To: stuart@gentoo.org To: Ron O'Hara , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:13:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F3FFCFF.2080804@sentuny.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3F3FFCFF.2080804@sentuny.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_X4/P/OWm6wfa5lU"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308172313.43267.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage X-Archives-Salt: c80251a5-083d-4294-9f47-86e45ffffd95 X-Archives-Hash: 05fca68e2816423d4c48ebdcab776bab --Boundary-02=_X4/P/OWm6wfa5lU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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 f= or=20 your Gentoo boxes - and your own (internal) distfiles mirror too. This giv= es=20 you complete control over what ebuilds your many Gentoo machines will get,= =20 and ensures that you can roll out software long after it has been removed=20 from Gentoo's portage (we delete 'old' files all the time, when we believe= =20 they're obsolete, which really screws up consistency across a large=20 deployment. However, with your own internal mirror, you can keep these=20 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=20 Portage solution, but it's one that does work. Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruis= e/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_X4/P/OWm6wfa5lU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/P/4XDC+AuvmvxXwRAhnkAJ4isa1zxJupUKA4XstqsYJfN7xjQgCgm3k8 H4eRT/5vMb+LyZwg7tYCiVU= =J3OQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_X4/P/OWm6wfa5lU--