From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 537CC138206 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 05:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E5A3E087C; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 05:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out8.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out8.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B6BE0875 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 05:20:55 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2DcJwC2fmFa/zVjqHxeHAEBAQQBAQoBA?= =?us-ascii?q?YNCaXGEBIomkGCXM4IVCoU7AoReSg0BAQEBAQEBAQFrKIUkAQUjZgsNCwICJgI?= =?us-ascii?q?CVxMIAQGKLq0jgichAooOMoEPgy2DbIIRgwWFboJLgmUFk0KQL5VYggAZig0Xh?= =?us-ascii?q?1iKcoxJgToCTQuBUEwfGYJohGM0jTABAQE?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2DcJwC2fmFa/zVjqHxeHAEBAQQBAQoBAYNCaXGEBIomkGC?= =?us-ascii?q?XM4IVCoU7AoReSg0BAQEBAQEBAQFrKIUkAQUjZgsNCwICJgICVxMIAQGKLq0jg?= =?us-ascii?q?ichAooOMoEPgy2DbIIRgwWFboJLgmUFk0KQL5VYggAZig0Xh1iKcoxJgToCTQu?= =?us-ascii?q?BUEwfGYJohGM0jTABAQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,380,1511798400"; d="scan'208";a="38808247" Received: from unknown (HELO mail.vm.localdomain) ([124.168.99.53]) by icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 19 Jan 2018 13:20:40 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vm.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676366C9CC for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:20:39 +0800 (AWST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from mail.vm.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.vm.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nh8po036H_yD for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:20:33 +0800 (AWST) Received: from [192.168.44.7] (rattus.lan.localdomain [192.168.44.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: wdk) by mail.vm.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52E466C692 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 06:14:30 +0800 (AWST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Managing updates on many identical Gentoo systems To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <2686de8e-334c-084b-4828-6109b10dd536@gentoo.org> From: Bill Kenworthy Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 06:13:43 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-AU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dfb60873-9954-4ab0-8296-741cd9f1a1f7 X-Archives-Hash: 3bb91f66e465e01de1a85997afea88b3 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