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

[Don Seiler <rizzo@gentoo.org>]

Yes I was going to suggest something similar.  We only have 6 desktop
users at work right now but we all share the same /usr/portage via NFS.
So all ebuilds and distfiles are from the same source.  It seems silly
to be re-downloading distfiles to every machine.

Don.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:17:02PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> 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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