Re: [gentoo-server] Emerging for servers

[Edward Muller <emuller@engineyard.com>]

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Edward Muller

On Sep 29, 2008, at 11:18 AM, "Sven Vermeulen" <swift@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Edward Muller  
> <emuller@engineyard.com> wrote:
>> You would of course want:
>>
>> FEATURES="buildpkg"
>>
>> in your make.conf
>
> A possible architecture would be to have a development server (where
> Gentoo is used as it is used mostly, i.e. source-builds, but with a
> somewhat static portage tree), then a staging server with
> FEATURES=buildpkg, then a testing server where you only install the
> binaries (which were created on the staging server) and if the testing
> is succesfull, proceed with the production server.

We actually pull upstream portage into a git repository and merge only  
the packages that we need to merge into our production branch. This  
also allows us to test incoming packages for various levels of breakage.

We use a dedicated build system to compile the binaries used by our  
systems.
>
>
> Of course, that would require some resources although virtualization
> can help you a great deal.
>
> Wkr,
>  Sven Vermeulen
>