>> On Friday 13 October 2006 15:16, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > I was reading the thread on the lightweight gentoo system. > This to a > > degree meshed with what a friend and I have been talking about. > > Essentially setting up a standard image for all of my > gentoo servers, > > and stage 4ing (is that a word?) that image to the servers. > Once they > > are in production, building updates etc in a dedicated build > > environment and simply rolling out binaries to the boxes as > they are needed. > > > > The concept sounds really good, giving me the ability to do > > (relatively) fast updates with binaries on the production servers, > > after they have been through testing, with out tying up > resouces, and > > (more importantly) being able to fully test them prior to > putting them into production. > > > > If anyone has done this type of thing, or has references, links, > > pointers etc I would REALLY appreciate them. > > I haven't done any stage4 stuff so no clue about how to do > that. I only know that it's possible. But for the rest of it > [1] should give you a hint... > > [1] > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&; chap=3#doc_chap4 > > -- > Bo Andresen >
Bo: The stage 4 stuff is quite easy and I do that routinely. If you want links or suggestions on how to do it I'll be glad to try to help -- its sped up my life considerably. It was the separate build host etc stuff that I was looking for. That section out of the handbook looks good --I'll start playing with it in a dev environment hopefully this weekend -- thanks for the pointer TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
