Hi, On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 16:45, Christian Kauhaus <k...@gocept.com> wrote: > Am 24.05.2011 09:37, schrieb Ramon van Alteren: >> >> In addition to puppet and our own frozen portage snapshot+overlay, we >> use agaffneys install scripting to install servers over the net + a >> standard tftp + dhcp netbooting setup. > > We have a lot of Gentoo servers at our company, too. To get stable installs > and avoid too frequent updates, we also freeze the portage tree. The problem > is that some distfiles disappear really soon on the upstream mirrors. Does > anyone know of a fallback mirror which keeps distfiles longer as usual? If > there is none, we could possibly provide one by ourselves...
Not that I know off, although most of the time you can find older releases by a project by hand if you dig through the archives etc. We keep our own stuff on a local mirror. Because we use catalyst to build a stage4 package set, we download most of the sources anyway during the build process, it is fairly easy to turn that into a local mirror You can also setup a private distfile mirror and not --delete, that gives you more or less indefinite history of mirror contents. Given todays hd prices, this will go a long way :) Ramon Senior System Engineer Hyves.nl
