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

["Petteri Räty" <petteri.raty@saunalahti.fi>]

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Ronan Mullally kirjoitti:
> 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?
> 

I think /etc/portage/profile/package.provided could work.

Regards,
Petteri


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