Re: Farm synchronization
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 06:17:34PM +0400, Oleg Lutchenko wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Is there any regular way to synchronize installed packages in the farm of >> FreeBSD servers quickly. > > Forget packages. Here is wat I do to keep the ports on a couple of machines in > sync. > > - Ports are built and installed on a single powerfull workstation, the build > machine. > - After updating the build machine (using portsnap and portmaster), the > /usr/local and /var/db/pkg directories from that machine are distributed to > the dependent machines using rsync(1). > - You may need to exclude /usr/local/etc from rsync, or use a script to > change files in > that directory afterwards to account for different hostnames and or IP > addresses! I tend to keep config files for every machine in a git > repository on my workstation, merge any chances from the updates and roll > them out to the dependent machines. > - Note that if you use ports that install kernel modules, you'll need to sync > /boot/modules as well! > - On the dependent machines, the /usr/ports directory is removed to save > space. > > This solution has made my life a lot easier. I'm doing this on a farm of over 500 FreeBSD machines for years now. Works perfectly, and is a huge time saver. > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Farm synchronization
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 06:17:34PM +0400, Oleg Lutchenko wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any regular way to synchronize installed packages in the farm of > FreeBSD servers quickly. Forget packages. Here is wat I do to keep the ports on a couple of machines in sync. - Ports are built and installed on a single powerfull workstation, the build machine. - After updating the build machine (using portsnap and portmaster), the /usr/local and /var/db/pkg directories from that machine are distributed to the dependent machines using rsync(1). - You may need to exclude /usr/local/etc from rsync, or use a script to change files in that directory afterwards to account for different hostnames and or IP addresses! I tend to keep config files for every machine in a git repository on my workstation, merge any chances from the updates and roll them out to the dependent machines. - Note that if you use ports that install kernel modules, you'll need to sync /boot/modules as well! - On the dependent machines, the /usr/ports directory is removed to save space. This solution has made my life a lot easier. You'll have tha same ports installed on all machines. This can be viewed as making life easier or as a security risk, depending on how you look at it. :-) But if your thoughts are leaning in the second direction, you can always use a script to pkg_delete the ports you don't need on specific machines. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpyrsRssy8Oc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Farm synchronization
Hello! Is there any regular way to synchronize installed packages in the farm of FreeBSD servers quickly. Thanks in advance Oleg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
