On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:

On 18/01/18 23:36, Duncan wrote:
> Anthony G. Basile posted on Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:46:53 -0500 as excerpted:
>
>> I'm trying to design an update system for many identical Gentoo systems.
>> Using a binhost is obvious, but there are still problems with this
>> approach.
>>

I'd suggest go for a semi diskless OS - boot them from one central image
with an individual overlay filesystem with local customisations. NFS
mount the common directories.

you just have a one central host to build for and don't need to worry
about portage everywhere.

Worked ok with a small number of mythtv frontends.

It doesn't work if you have a WAN; NFS needs low latencies between the NFS

server and the client or you will have a bad time.

BillK