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 1Otfes-0002e4-Fn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:51:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC88AE084A; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3974E084A for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so1346668iwn.40 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:50:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=mQmGFJ/RhCA8Av7gDELguPElc5Bp7nL99f1F2HwBhQY=; b=XgmTDFkR+L6a2Z1ISsEKJih6ws/RBTLn/TQPoYBlK3ybA5OMAYL838PBk+E9pdAnXr 6rfISaNQ+NJUgHDyUqwW+Ek8mBLm/qWw3+X8SP59laG6ctesH4LhLmcL0Eo5G63Z+ekR PagFdvoGEhU0jFyXRp8/FtraO5rz0OcTyfApA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=kjGDHYWW4QoxvrshuxwcyfXdEu6yUZSFbme9WMIJvM3Xcyt/BI7aXE0n6jhpYX8bvz qEzpIGYgq9pJhA+OjO2BbQJCM7CgWhSXVxL0vvvPZ4MQxnXzeAmJWKi4jjHM2HxrUQXN K6Mp6SzSz+OUz84g+8SbvvttlnoqPM2v5DHrc= 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 Received: by 10.231.166.9 with SMTP id k9mr11708205iby.127.1284033027423; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.37.138 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 04:50:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201009091056.39057.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <201009072320.54829.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100909005654.GA15206@nibiru.local> <201009091056.39057.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:50:27 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo From: Al To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 5ac760e7-8d14-4b7e-8de3-7deb85289993 X-Archives-Hash: 3e196f6ebebbec096f1532dac7833b44 > My beef with portage in my specific production setup is the amount of work it > takes my guys to keep everything up to date. We don't have 150 identical > servers in a farm (I'd love that and would switch to Gentoo immediately if it > were). I have 130 completely different configs and uses for those servers. > How about migrating them one-by-one to CentOs first and in a second step to Gentoo? Sure every servers migration is work. But there will be routine once you have migrated 10. Having a uniform serverfarm should pay the efforts after a reasonable time. Al