Hi, Am Dienstag, 23. September 2003 22:07 schrieb Paul Hannah: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have never tried something similar to this, but if you added any packages > installed on the clients manually (or through some automated script) to the > world file, after backing up the original and remembering to replace it > when you want to do an update to the server. Then the 'emerge sync && > emerge - -fud' should retreive all the files needed by all clients, no? > > Paul. > > On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 7:18 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 23. September 2003 18:46 schrieb Stroller: > > > > I feel unhappy with automatic system updates. Should etc-update be > > ... > > > > systems - it only updates the local portage database & fetches the > > > updates you require. It would, I would think, be quite easy to unshare > > > the NFS export before getting the files, and reshare it afterwards, as > > > part of the cron job. If this is done at 4am, then it is likely to > > > cause little interruption to service in most environments. > > > > Besides I share your opinion, that shell-scripting is an adequate way of > > cleaning distfiles, I must admit, that a cron-job, which calls emerge > > sync && emerge -fud world only makes sense on a shared .../distfiles, if > > and only if all machines sharing this, have the same packages installed. > > Given I have a server w/o X and such and some desktop machines naturally > > with this things. The share resides on the server, because this is the > > only machine 24/7 up. How could an update of X, KDE etc happen and use > > already downloaded files? When the desktops call emerge -ud world > > parallel, wouldn't that cause problems? Am I missing something? I'd love > > to do it this way, but I found no workaround for this problem yet. > > > > > Stroller. > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > Michael
I think, this would work, but that's not what I really want to do: editing world files, copying them here over and there over, everytime I update a desktop and/or the server. Note I have some machines running ~x86, and I do updates quite often (every two days average on this computers). I also often emerge packages only to have a look, how they work and if they fit my needs better than the program I actually use for this purpose. That's not my idea of comfort ;-) Thanks anyway for your suggestion, Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list