From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HqMVu-0008Qx-Qh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 05:02:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4M51kLX015092; Tue, 22 May 2007 05:01:46 GMT Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4M4xd5n011355 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 04:59:40 GMT Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0JIF00D01F7EI100@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 23:59:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.123.2] (66-168-55-121.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com [66.168.55.121]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0JIF009REF7DEF20@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 23:59:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:59:05 -0500 From: Brian Kroth Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups In-reply-to: To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <46527899.40401@wisc.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=192.168.123.2 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-9, Version=5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.21.214737, SenderIP=192.168.123.2 References: <4650937E.80301@spamcop.net> <4650BCC7.60909@vanalteren.nl> <200705211544.10900.bangert@gentoo.org> <4651AE78.3060705@buanzo.com.ar> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) X-Archives-Salt: f8e5a3d6-0fb9-4612-9fa8-6a1f4ac92cd1 X-Archives-Hash: 1247f7962a2843ae2e6a5d203e655905 > Back to the original question. How do I run a number of gentoo boxes > without gcc (or a portage tree)? > > > -Ronan Sorry for the late post, I'm still catching up on email. I haven't looked into removing gcc (but your comments intrigue me). As for no portage tree, all of my machines auto-NFS mount it from a local build host that also holds the binary packages. The NFS mount is set read-only so the novice doesn't get to emerge on the machine (yes it's easily subverted). I've found this helps with stability since then everything must go through the same build server and I have better guarantees about what is actually on the individual machines. There are a couple of different images to take care of the different roles each of those servers take on (web server, database server, mail server, etc.). I've also been looking into PXE booting so I only need to update a single image. To be honest I'm not quite ready for this yet, but it might be another option for you. Brian -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list