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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:22:54 -0500
From: Mike Doty <kingtaco@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools
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Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think most of the assumptions that you're making involve giving your
>>user population root access.
>>Don't
> 
> 
> ??
> The assumptions I am making are clearly not involving giving a user
> population root access. I just point to the lack of tools to maintain
> semi-frozen trees and to automate software updates on a large enterprise
> desktop deployment, and try to see if this gathers interest. I fail to
> see where I need to give wheel to user.
> 
> My position would rather be that workstations don't need a portage tree
> or an emerge command. A software deployment server could push package
> installation on workstations and keep track of what's installed where
> and with which configuration files.
> 
Why not have your build server make .rpms(or .tgz for that matter) and 
automagicly untar to /.  Alternatively, I'm exploring cvs to manage /etc 
for my clustered nodes, that may be something you want to consider as well.

Mike
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