On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 14:37, Ramon van Alteren <ra...@vanalteren.nl> wrote: > Hey, > > This list seems to have woken up suddenly again, good news :) >
About time, I should say... There have been.... let's say, 'doubts' as to the suitability of Gentoo as servers. > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 00:12, la Bigmac <la_big...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> While I have a central emerge server (rsync) and sync all of my servers to >> it I still manually update the packages. >> >> Example, openssh how should I be updating openssh on all of my servers other >> than logging onto each one in turn and running emerge openssh. > > Puppet takes care of that for us and this is a major relief, having > useflag support in the puppet gentoo package provider would be nice, > but not really necessary. I'd prefer having useflag awareness in > binpkgs and the ability to produce different binpkgs for different > useflag sets in portage. > So, do you think it will be wise to create a management tool explicitly for Gentoo (with its quirks such as ~masks, USE flags, portage/env, and so-on), or just rely on Puppet? Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk: pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live: pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype: pepoluan More on me: My LinkedIn Account My Facebook Account
