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ayqazi
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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: Several machines all running Gentoo |
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Hi,
If I have several machines all running Gentoo (e.g. in a compile farm) how can I operate on all of them easily? I'm talking about upgrading, installing new software, etc. such that all configuration options are the same, except the IP addresses which are (obviously) different.
More specifically, does gentoo support this sort of behaviour by default, or are there tools to facilitate this?
Also, Fedora apparently have this option where their OS is built for root on nfs - i.e. they have designed / redesigned it so that most of the root filesystem can be use off of an nfs mount. Obviously, this means that upgrading software only has to be done once and all machines sharing the main file server's filesystem get upgraded as well. Is this possible with Gentoo?
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HoLzPLatTeN
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You can do it, of course 
Using a common nfs / directory on every machine of your network or only the /usr directory is perfectly possible. In this way, you only need to install each package in one of them to be able to use it on all of them.
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lbrtuk
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| HoLzPLatTeN wrote: | You can do it, of course
Using a common nfs / directory on every machine of your network or only the /usr directory is perfectly possible. In this way, you only need to install each package in one of them to be able to use it on all of them. |
The problem with this is how updates to /etc and friends would trickle down (or not as the case may be) to client machines.
Personally I'd have one master machine building binary packages (emerge -b) and get all of the client machines to get the binary packages from nfs via emerge -k.
But then again, the nfs /usr might be quicker and simpler if you're not fussed about etc-updates and confusing portage.
(Something that's useful when managing many machines is clusterssh.) |
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acasto
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Have you looked at the Gentoo diskless guide yet?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml
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