Grant wrote:
After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to
stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo
systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What
can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier?
I think identical hardware in each system would help a lot but I'm not
sure that's practical. I need to put together a bunch of new
workstations and I'm thinking some sort of server/client arrangement
with the only Gentoo install being on the server could be appropriate.
- Grant
If I had a dozen or so rigs, I would want them to be identical at least
as far as mobos and such. Drives and such could vary depending on other
things tho. If you use the same USE flags, you could update one and
then copy /etc/portage/* to the other rigs then the updates could just
be binary installs from the first rig updated.
The only thing that might bite you is if you have different uses for
each rig. If you have different packages installed, then you may have
to compile for that. Most likely tho, you could use binaries for at
least the system packages and save some time.
I think Alan has some rigs and may be able to share more ideas. Maybe
some others could comment that have dealt with the same thing.
Dale
:-) :-)
