From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3712 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Aug 2003 23:37:18 -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 8113 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2003 23:37:18 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:37:10 -0500 From: Don Seiler To: "Ron O'Hara" , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030817233710.GA23003%don@seiler.us> References: <3F3FFCFF.2080804@sentuny.com.au> <20030817231702.GC20407@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030817231702.GC20407@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage X-Archives-Salt: 635e28a5-944d-47c5-bdce-d37db5b845a6 X-Archives-Hash: e24e06387396b44eee563467f956e480 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. > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > E-Mail : robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net > Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 > ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 > GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list