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

["Paul de Vrieze" <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

Hi Ron,

Currently there is no support yet for what you want, except when you do it
yourself. But we are actively looking into providing for an "enterprise
gentoo". This version of gentoo would have real releases every say half
year (the terms have not been decided yet), further it would provide
security fixes and fixes for serious bugs. But it would not provide newer
versions of applications to provide more stability. Security fixes would
be backported if at all possible.

Expect work on this to become visible in the comming months.

For now, for enterprise systems you probably want to have a server that
maintains private snapshots. (It is easy to set the specific tree in the
make.conf file, and multiple trees can be offered on the server). You
would then need to monitor security problems, and merge the fixed ebuilds
in the snapshot trees. This indeed is some work, but I believe in most
enterprise enviroments such an update would involve some testing too.

For syncing the server trees, please take a look at the rsync mirror
documentation. In those environments it is most often more applicable to
use rsync directly instead of through portage. That also allows for custom
locations. You might also want to exclude parts of the tree like games.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo developer
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net




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