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 1Hq9qc-0000G5-7C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 15:30:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4LFUMXo008913; Mon, 21 May 2007 15:30:22 GMT Received: from magrathea.aachalon.de (magrathea.aachalon.de [81.24.35.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4LFS4CH005971 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 15:28:05 GMT Received: by magrathea.aachalon.de (Postfix, from userid 72) id 16D6D41255; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:28:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 212.66.147.94 (SquirrelMail authenticated user shiva) by aachalon.de with HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:28:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <8585.212.66.147.94.1179761280.squirrel@aachalon.de> In-Reply-To: <4651B440.1030402@buanzo.com.ar> References: <4650937E.80301@spamcop.net> <4650BCC7.60909@vanalteren.nl> <200705211544.10900.bangert@gentoo.org> <4651AE78.3060705@buanzo.com.ar> <4651B440.1030402@buanzo.com.ar> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:28:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups From: "Christian Bricart" To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: 5fd0021f-14ca-4c3b-bc3e-c0b587c30755 X-Archives-Hash: 33fb71c485edd123bc31fe80a237baee Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Ronan Mullally wrote: >> Back to the original question. How do I run a number of gentoo boxes >> without gcc (or a portage tree)? > > WIll sound like a joke, but my answer would be "without running gentoo". > It's a source-based distro. > .. nonsense - of course you're able to maintain your own $BINHOST which compiles the packages (--buildpkg[only]) and have other servers in your farm that have the same $arch and USE-flags and use "emerge --{get,use}binpkg .." on them http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4 then actually you only need "tar" and "b[un]zip2" on the target. remark: add those keys to $FEATURES in /etc/make.conf and tweak the servers' repository links to your local buildhost(s) and Portage mirrors... Works like charm here - I've got a central host here to build all packages for identically configured cluster hosts that (e)merge the pre-built packages. It's quite a time saver Christian -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list