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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
To: Ron O'Hara <rono@sentuny.com.au>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 16:17:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030817231702.GC20407@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F3FFCFF.2080804@sentuny.com.au>

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:09:03AM +1000, Ron O'Hara wrote:
> I may have missed something in all the docs, but as far as I can see
> there is what should be a fairly simple enhancement to portage that
> would help considerably in making Gentoo more practical in larger
> deployments.
I do it in the same way that I handle FreeBSD systems. I have a single
copy of the tree on a read-only NFS mount. I also have a minimal overlay
tree that is also on a read-only NFS mount with some custom packages. I
can manipulate that copy as I see fit, and it's already at all the
machines. 

I have 26 machines at work currently running Gentoo, 6 of those are
workstations and the rest servers. I'm actually going to be migrating
the workstations back to Redhat due to pressure from users, but the
servers are staying Gentoo.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-17 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-17 22:09 [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage Ron O'Hara
2003-08-17 22:13 ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-17 23:27   ` Ron O'Hara
2003-08-18  0:22     ` Matt Thrailkill
2003-08-18 14:14       ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-17 23:17 ` Robin H. Johnson [this message]
2003-08-17 23:37   ` Don Seiler
2003-08-18  8:24   ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-18  9:38     ` Robin H. Johnson
     [not found] ` <200308181026.44148.chris.rs@xtra.co.nz>
2003-08-18  0:34   ` Ron O'Hara
2003-08-18  8:38     ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-18  0:42 ` Brian Jackson
2003-08-18 14:45   ` Stuart Bouyer

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