From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyrn-0006k2-1n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 21:10:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C6D51C032 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 21:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AC81C02E for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 21:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxb39 with SMTP id 39so6502856vxb.40 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 14:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.73.195 with SMTP id n3mr654078vdv.28.1306271216078; Tue, 24 May 2011 14:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.158.163 with HTTP; Tue, 24 May 2011 14:06:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [83.163.48.64] In-Reply-To: <4DDBC474.8010607@gocept.com> References: <4DDBC474.8010607@gocept.com> From: Ramon van Alteren Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:06:36 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Managing multiple servers. To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 27957deda46212e66b3e0eb2e20968d5 Hi, On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 16:45, Christian Kauhaus wrote: > Am 24.05.2011 09:37, schrieb Ramon van Alteren: >> >> In addition to puppet and our own frozen portage snapshot+overlay, we >> use agaffneys install scripting to install servers over the net + a >> standard tftp + dhcp netbooting setup. > > We have a lot of Gentoo servers at our company, too. To get stable installs > and avoid too frequent updates, we also freeze the portage tree. The problem > is that some distfiles disappear really soon on the upstream mirrors. Does > anyone know of a fallback mirror which keeps distfiles longer as usual? If > there is none, we could possibly provide one by ourselves... Not that I know off, although most of the time you can find older releases by a project by hand if you dig through the archives etc. We keep our own stuff on a local mirror. Because we use catalyst to build a stage4 package set, we download most of the sources anyway during the build process, it is fairly easy to turn that into a local mirror You can also setup a private distfile mirror and not --delete, that gives you more or less indefinite history of mirror contents. Given todays hd prices, this will go a long way :) Ramon Senior System Engineer Hyves.nl