On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
hmm... network booting? network mounting? install packages once on
one system, share them with everyone. Share passwd/shadow files and
the like manually, or symlink them to skeletal versions symlinked to
somewhere that can be obscured and replaced by a
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:57:48 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Dealing with unexpected side
> effects of syncing in-use files could be a lot more problematic.
perhaps a digest of some kind? md5 the files, write up a little script
to keep the rest of the nodes synced up?
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:14 +0200 (CEST)
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files
> /etc/conf.d/hostname
> /etc/conf.d/net
>
> I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating
> GenToo upto several times a week)
> and 'rsync' the other ones.
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:46:17 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> No, on the 'master' machine I have in /etc/make.conf
> FEATURES="buildpkg -stricter"
>
> and on the clones I use '-k'.
>
> But still, portage checks dependencies on the clone.
> And, if it sees a problem (like those when upgradi
On 31 Jul, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:59:02 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
>> I've done so in the past but I've made bad experience.
>> Unfortunately portage isn't so clever, yet.
>
> portage is a lot cleverer than it used to be, especially with regard to
> blocks.
Yes
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:59:02 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> I've done so in the past but I've made bad experience.
> Unfortunately portage isn't so clever, yet.
portage is a lot cleverer than it used to be, especially with regard to
blocks.
> Many times (on the 'clones', as well) I had t
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:14 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files
> /etc/conf.d/hostname
> /etc/conf.d/net
>
> I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating
> GenToo upto several times a week)
> and 'rsync' the other ones.
>
> Now,
On 31 Jul, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:14 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
>> I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files
>> /etc/conf.d/hostname
>> /etc/conf.d/net
>>
>> I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating
>> GenToo upto several times a wee
Hi,
I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files
/etc/conf.d/hostname
/etc/conf.d/net
I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating
GenToo upto several times a week)
and 'rsync' the other ones.
Now, rsync'ing a life root filesystem is risky.
I don't see any problems for the FS
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