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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Managing updates on many identical Gentoo systems
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 06:13:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff36ac2b-f477-a13c-44fd-9b8ee6f35b2c@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$58d87$2ec21fb4$2420a5a1$34ea669d@cox.net>

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.

BillK


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-19  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-18 11:46 [gentoo-dev] Managing updates on many identical Gentoo systems Anthony G. Basile
2018-01-18 12:00 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-01-18 12:34 ` Lars Wendler
2018-01-18 19:22   ` NP-Hardass
2018-01-18 12:42 ` Martin Gysel
2018-01-18 15:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2018-01-18 22:13   ` Bill Kenworthy [this message]
2018-01-19 14:45     ` Alec Warner
2018-01-19 15:03       ` Anthony G. Basile
2018-01-19 18:13         ` Zac Medico
2018-01-20 15:34         ` Anthony G. Basile
2018-01-20 21:48           ` Zac Medico
2018-01-18 16:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alec Warner
2018-01-18 23:01   ` Zac Medico
2018-01-18 22:30 ` Alexander Tsoy
2018-01-18 22:53   ` Alexander Tsoy
2018-01-18 23:00 ` R0b0t1

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