Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 09/16/14 21:11, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 16/09/2014 20:05, Joseph wrote:
>> On 09/16/14 17:57, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> solved all the problems.
>>>> I was at python:3.3 but for some reason or another (mostly my fault) I
>>>> did not unmerged python:3.1
>>>>
>>>> When it comes to upgrading be-weekly maybe but from my experience, when
>>>> I was doing it more often, occasionally, I ended up with a broken
>>>> system that was caused by new
>>>> packages.
>>>> I have 4-boxes at home and two boxes at a remote location.  So the
>>>> boxes at home get upgraded first, I wait a week, just to make sure
>>>> every program works and
>>>> then I upgrade one box on a remote location, wait one week again and
>>>> upgrade the second box (the backup) in the remote location.
>>>> So doing it even every second week would be too often for this routine.
>>>>
>>>> The boxes are "rsync" to one local box.
>>>
>>> I am starting to wonder.
>>> How exactly do you upgrade the other machines?
>>> Copying the entire filesystem?
>>
>> I rsync one local server and all other machine are rsync to it.
>
>
>*what* do you rsync? Not whihc machine rsyncs to what, he's asking what
>files and directories exactly do you rsync?

I "rsync" only portage, nothing else on the main server.
Other boxes are arsyning to:
SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.103/gentoo-portage"
10.0.0.103 is running "rsyncd"

Upgrade is as usual. 

-- 
Joseph