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 1QdAdT-00033f-72 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:34:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9543121C075; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 00:32:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BC021C075 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 00:32:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyf40 with SMTP id 40so4964539iyf.40 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:32:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nd2kVNhZbH19ty4ymTgndGBjIpMpnE2SWFUIGANbbPU=; b=fdal2INy9zKEpTGl4ozoEqa3GFOim0SNvso7u/2lYRTIkHJ/mSGSolWLJEB2BgjWhg 4GF/mXS+xpuS8oD1bGXdCoKYMupuluHUv1DbvP1y+0v6KSFWg/TrOOPHAWJGgw2u+VUg EKGttsTZEV4J5fSOiBrIDE5ks9kUCVwxo87Vw= Received: by 10.42.144.74 with SMTP id a10mr1947727icv.93.1309653163857; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-108-190.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.108.190]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e1sm4878541icv.20.2011.07.02.17.32.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E0FB8A9.4030701@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:32:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 19a4090738761b00aed80ae51ce59e0a Grant wrote: > After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to > stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo > systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What > can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier? > I think identical hardware in each system would help a lot but I'm not > sure that's practical. I need to put together a bunch of new > workstations and I'm thinking some sort of server/client arrangement > with the only Gentoo install being on the server could be appropriate. > > - Grant > > > If I had a dozen or so rigs, I would want them to be identical at least as far as mobos and such. Drives and such could vary depending on other things tho. If you use the same USE flags, you could update one and then copy /etc/portage/* to the other rigs then the updates could just be binary installs from the first rig updated. The only thing that might bite you is if you have different uses for each rig. If you have different packages installed, then you may have to compile for that. Most likely tho, you could use binaries for at least the system packages and save some time. I think Alan has some rigs and may be able to share more ideas. Maybe some others could comment that have dealt with the same thing. Dale :-) :-)