Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Best practices in managing large server groups

[Wendall Cada <wendallc@83864.com>]

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On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:06 -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
> Wendall Cada wrote:
> > I very much agree with his assessment here. This is what I do for binary
> > distribution to desktop systems. It is very effective. I have played
> > with Catalyst quite a bit, but agree that catalyst-2 is much more well
> > suited for this.
> 
> I'm sorry; which "this" are you referring to? I'm a little unclear on 
> whether what you're indicating that you use is Ramon's suggestion (of 
> using catalyst-2) or our senior sysadmin's suggestion (of using emerge, 
> set to output binary packages and target a chroot).

I use (of using emerge, set to output binary packages and target a
chroot) right now, as Ramon's senior sysadmin recommends. But am looking
into using catalyst-2 in the future.

Wendall
> 
> Thank you!
> 
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