Hi folks, I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of).
As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but quickly ran into scaling problems and the lack of tools to help. There is no obvious way to freeze a Portage tree (or to design a specific profile) for testing on a golden workstation, to build a set of update packages (ServicePack) and push it to the workstations, or to have centralized accountability of what's installed where. There is no easy way to avoid having to keep a synchronized copy of the portage tree on all systems, even when using yourown-binaries. With automatic deployments, would we run into difficult-to-solve etc-update problems ? Should/could the ServicePack system take care of that ? Even in a simpler setup (preprod > production) we don't have the tools to push a software configuration change from a test machine to a production one. What tools are missing ? Is it our job to provide them ? Can it reasonably be done ? Am I just wrong to want to use Gentoo in that direction ? Next week: Gentoo-as-a-metadistribution tools :) -- Koon
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