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

["José Costa" <meetra@gmail.com>]

ups, replied for the wrong email "question".

how about dealing with /var/*/portage and db stuff?

On 5/21/07, José Costa <meetra@gmail.com> wrote:
> try portage-utils. they are in C.
>
> On 5/21/07, Ronan Mullally <ronan@iol.ie> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Ryan Gibbons wrote:
> >
> > > I believe you will still need a tree either way.
> > >
> > > I would just have the master server share it's portage tree over nfs, and then
> > > when you update the nodes of the cluster, just mount the nfs share, run your
> > > emerge system or world or whatever, and then when you are finished umount the
> > > nfs share.
> > >
> > > I imagine this could be done easily via scripts, complete with error checking
> > > for bad mounts bad emerges etc.
> >
> > That's what I figured.  Okay, last question - how do I stop emerge trying
> > to update the compiler-less systems to include development tools like gcc?
> > I presume tweaking the profile is the way to do it.  Is there a stock
> > profile that already has these excluded?
> >
> >
> > -Ronan
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