On Friday 13 October 2006 15:16, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> I was reading the thread on the lightweight gentoo system.  This to a
> degree meshed with what a friend and I have been talking about.
> Essentially setting up a standard image for all of my gentoo servers,
> and stage 4ing (is that a word?) that image to the servers.  Once they
> are in production, building updates etc in a dedicated build environment
> and simply rolling out binaries to the boxes as they are needed.
>
> The concept sounds really good, giving me the ability to do (relatively)
> fast updates with binaries on the production servers, after they have
> been through testing, with out tying up resouces, and (more importantly)
> being able to fully test them prior to putting them into production.
>
> If anyone has done this type of thing, or has references, links,
> pointers etc I would REALLY appreciate them.

I haven't done any stage4 stuff so no clue about how to do that. I only know
that it's possible. But for the rest of it [1] should give you a hint...

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4

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Bo Andresen