From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1761 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2004 01:34:18 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 13 Oct 2004 01:34:18 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CHY1y-0002FH-02 for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:34:18 +0000 Received: (qmail 31787 invoked by uid 89); 13 Oct 2004 01:34:16 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13557 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2004 01:34:16 +0000 From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:46:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <416C28E4.4050801@sendmail.com> <416C45F0.4000001@sendmail.com> <13cc2f7804101214361fd7b096@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13cc2f7804101214361fd7b096@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410121746.38646.george@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-100000.0 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello X-Archives-Salt: 5d300edc-b8a3-4d8c-9b5e-1e58bcb2a66c X-Archives-Hash: 847ada9b145c0b2ef7da4aa3f44e9fed On Tuesday 12 October 2004 14:36, Colin Kingsley wrote: > > 3. You have to issue one-and-only-one command for upgrade > Already the case. I think portage is a lot more advanced than you realise. I suspect you meant to say "portage is more advanced than I think you realise" ;). Anyway, Ashish: from your description it seems to me that you are thinking about rolling a well defined identical and tested installation on a bunch of PC's at some place. Is this right? There is no need for inventing anything for this purpose. Portage will handle the situation as it is already. The things you should look into if you want more controll over your large-scale installation are: 1. look into supporting a local portage tree and sync all local nodes against it 2. Have a testing rig where you install all updates first. Do so with --buildpkg option to roll pre-compiled packages (with all your local settings). Install on local nodes with --usepkg (there are short notations for both these options). Of course you can combine both 1 and 2 :). See "man portage" and/or "portage --help" for more. Read portage docs on gentoo.org. Also scan through gentoo-user archives (use gmane.org) and search forums.gentoo.org. This whole topic was covered immense number of times.. George -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list