From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85E91381F3 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10EF9E0C5F; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f171.google.com (mail-qc0-f171.google.com [209.85.216.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0D70E0B25 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id x19so4364945qcw.2 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:55:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=zYGdYjGI7YSc9CbWQbpwBtCh1pTUGgl6jfplSY3zpUw=; b=AWF1OmW+cD2HfBKlWSrg1oaYxuxSbIIWfNjq2BYYiXsrzxguHczqEhMA22o9FiSuTI Ljf5kXVjHF0QQsDxPfTFjXLsZ2Iis+m5yWDpsiFSs1gxpX3sWpRNhljr82eVrZoIAAdP LWy933SiNcyAce5/RbhtXd0ctkBIJHWK6JuEXWUX7RBsQ+lr4cGKjRDquw5ls/AgPGR5 BuhmKK7nFN25vo5mS62zM0Rvd4DzD2wucJ5LXflCdlokWQbkGPAzgvp+WU8SwxzYwReJ S1t1NJc1oewcIgm8KUsc2+ZrcctZ4vmPH2RTdp+/dKeWPkaviwmqwDB88wRFR4y8+0fZ m8NA== 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 X-Received: by 10.49.47.50 with SMTP id a18mr33767557qen.61.1380608791551; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.25.83 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:26:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130930220206.609ed7f3@digimed.co.uk> References: <524358B0.1060000@gmail.com> <52449C1A.5000306@gmail.com> <5245E03A.2020605@gmail.com> <52489438.3090405@gmail.com> <5249D186.8050808@gmail.com> <20130930220206.609ed7f3@digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:26:31 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 1e1f37d5-23de-43a6-a5b9-e308431cbca9 X-Archives-Hash: 6e11b72fc51316c3c52bc5448f5d3726 >> > I'm soaking up a lot of your time (again). I'll return with any real >> > Gentoo questions I run into and to run down the final plan before I >> > execute it. Thanks so much for your help. Not sure what I'd do >> > without you. :) >> >> I'm sure Neil would step in if I'm hit by a bus >> He'd say the same things, and use about 1/4 of the words it takes me ;-) > > So far in this thread, I've managed about 0/4 of the words you've used... > Oh damn! > > But yes, a build host and adding --usepkg=y to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in > make.conf gives a massive speed increase. Run the build host in an easily > recovered environment, like a VM, and you don't even have to monitor the > world update on it, just run a script in the early hours that does emerge > --sync && emerge -uXX @world and check your mailbox for errors before > running emerge on the "clients". The use clusterssh or dsh to update them > all at once. I'm hoping to update everything on my own laptop before I have the laptop clients update. If I install everything on my own laptop that any of the clients have installed, I should be able to avoid any update trouble on the clients. clusterssh or dsh sounds like a good method for updating the clients. Basically, once I update everything on my laptop and it looks good, I want to be able to send the clients a signal to update as well. - Grant