From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14826 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Aug 2003 08:38:53 -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 3311 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2003 08:38:53 -0000 Message-ID: <32586.134.188.150.80.1061195932.squirrel@callisto.cs.kun.nl> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:38:52 +0200 (CEST) From: "Paul de Vrieze" To: In-Reply-To: <3F401F15.9060204@sentuny.com.au> References: <3F3FFCFF.2080804@sentuny.com.au> <200308181026.44148.chris.rs@xtra.co.nz> <3F401F15.9060204@sentuny.com.au> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage X-Archives-Salt: 8f511594-5e3b-47a9-84ec-a94f6d35b427 X-Archives-Hash: 8e78c229e6592601cb9b8ab97f295d6a Hi Ron, Currently there is no support yet for what you want, except when you do i= t 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 custo= m locations. You might also want to exclude parts of the tree like games. Paul --=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo developer Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list