On Wed Apr 13 15:50:27 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: > enough problems by wasting time if you have to maintain 10, 20, 30 or more > servers and in case of problems need fast downgrades - especially if you run > virtual machines where all the compile jobs share hardware > > besides that on a production server no compilers should be installed at all > - the generation of malware which compiles itself is only a question of time > > what gentoo would need to solve for professional environemnts is that you > have one machine which pulls the updates, compiles them and apckage them in > a way all other machines in the network can pull and apply them in > precompiled from over ftp, http or whatever network protocol > > we are doing the same even for Fedora servers where one machine which has > all package sinstalled moves them from yum/dnf-cache to a repo folder, run > createrepo and all other machines have only this repo enabled and so can do > a "yum -y upgrade" which can be triggered over SSH directly from the admin > machine with a "distribute-updates.sh" script and a own SSH key for that > task
Hi, When you run several dozens of servers, you should use and orchestrator. By this way, you don’t spend time for each server. Also, you can have a compiler for your gentoo architecture that serves binary packages to other servers. -- alarig
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