On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:00, Ron OHara wrote:An rsync repository is another part of the production deployment issues, (especially for bandwidth issues) but ideally the overall process should not force me to duplicate the managment effort that already goes into maintaining the Gentoo portage 'repository'. That work is already being done so it seems silly to have to manually administer a downstream repository just to preserve 'old' ebuilds - and even then, the true repository of which ebuilds are needed for a specific system is held on that system .. not on another server.
Hi,
I want to raise an issue resulting from my experience so far in using Gentoo as the basis of production systems. Some may ask why? - but basically 'portage' seems to offer the very best framework for ongoing maintenance/admin of systems, though it's not perfect in that role.
There are a couple things you may want to look into.
First, have you considered setting up your own rsync repository? Second, how about using PORTAGE_OVERLAY to save ebuilds.
To a degree, the same thing applies to the PORTAGE_OVERLAY setting - that tree may be a suitable place to preserve older ebuilds that are being removed from the central portage, but I dont want to maintain it manually on hundreds of systems.
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