On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:54:59PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Or am I going at this the wrong way - is NFS'ing the whole of /usr not a > Good Thing? > If so, what's the solution that results in a global /usr for the > clients?
I looked at this same idea a couple months back (check the archive for, IIRC, something like "Debian with a read-only /usr" if you want to see what I was told them) and it didn't look feasible within the current version of apt. As an alternative, I decided that it would work fairly well to set up a local deb archive. I don't quite trust it yet, but I was able to successfully `apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade` a newish machine from my local archive earlier today. My intent is to get new packages on my workstation, test them out, and then, if all is well, add them to the local archive. All the other machines on the network should then be free to `apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade` nightly from cron. In any case, doing this seems to be largely undocumented. If all goes well, though, I hope to be able to put some documentation and a cleaned up version of my archive-creating perl script together within the next week or so. If you want help setting up something similar or you want to be notified when I've got the docs ready, feel free to mail me directly. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+
