From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PswOR-0001tI-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:03:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 908D7E02CB for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.deploylinux.net (mail1.deploylinux.net [209.216.192.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B89D1C007 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.deploylinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50C426CFFC; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:08:23 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at deploylinux.net Received: from mail1.deploylinux.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.deploylinux.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YWD4VL632RQ9; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hyperion.deploylinux.net (hyperion.deploylinux.net [66.93.35.200]) by mail1.deploylinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF8AB26CFEC; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:08:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Marlowe Organization: DeployLinux Consulting, Inc To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:08:20 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r7a; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Ed W References: <4D501BA4.6040802@gentoo.org> <20110221001106.GB22774@nibiru.local> <4D678390.7050109@wildgooses.com> In-Reply-To: <4D678390.7050109@wildgooses.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102250308.21246.matt@deploylinux.net> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9928c97d2866b85f804ee20eb588976d All, > Perhaps this is an argument for a git based portage tree? Master can > stay as the current status quo and anyone who wants to can maintain a > branch or fork which points to a slightly different subset of the tree? > I'm starting to put together a portage/stable server configuration for a large number of gentoo VM's that will eventually be hosted on a VMware ESX 4.1U1 cluster - with the goal of limiting major changes to once/year and otherwise only applying security/minimum necessary updates. I doubt it will be easy but I'm doing my best at it :) As part of that I'm maintaining on github several related repositories, including portage mask/use/config files, cluster management utilities, etc. https://github.com/deploylinux I've also started to document work on my blog: http://www.deploylinux.net/matt I'm not currently planning to utilize a separate overlay for packages/ebuilds, but it's not out of the question. I'd be happy to work with any other devs w/ similiar interests or production networks to manage.....github makes group development relatively easy. MattM -- Matthew Marlowe / 858-400-7430 / DeployLinux Consulting, Inc Professional Linux Hosting and Systems Administration Services www.deploylinux.net * matt@deploylinux.net 'MattM' @ irc.freenode.net