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 1Hqbbu-0008Ka-ER for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:09:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4ML93Ph026765; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:09:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4ML78Vx024514 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:07:09 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB16464D8C for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:07:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.038 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.038 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.038] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TF56by-EmnBh for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:07:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400D364D93 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HqbZB-0007Ct-Lo for gentoo-server@gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 23:06:49 +0200 Received: from user-387ocuv.cable.mindspring.com ([208.124.51.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 23:06:49 +0200 Received: from charles by user-387ocuv.cable.mindspring.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 23:06:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org From: Charles Duffy Subject: [gentoo-server] Re: Best practices in managing large server groups Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:06:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4650937E.80301@spamcop.net> <4652270A.7020906@vanalteren.nl> <4653203B.5020700@spamcop.net> <1179854627.4647.13.camel@localhost> 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-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user-387ocuv.cable.mindspring.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: <1179854627.4647.13.camel@localhost> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: d6678f24-0b3b-4d8b-88c0-1844969315df X-Archives-Hash: ecaef786a814ceda287521da58e30ba6 Wendall Cada wrote: > I very much agree with his assessment here. This is what I do for binary > distribution to desktop systems. It is very effective. I have played > with Catalyst quite a bit, but agree that catalyst-2 is much more well > suited for this. I'm sorry; which "this" are you referring to? I'm a little unclear on whether what you're indicating that you use is Ramon's suggestion (of using catalyst-2) or our senior sysadmin's suggestion (of using emerge, set to output binary packages and target a chroot). Thank you! -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list