>> > I'm soaking up a lot of your time (again). I'll return with any real >> > Gentoo questions I run into and to run down the final plan before I >> > execute it. Thanks so much for your help. Not sure what I'd do >> > without you. :) >> >> I'm sure Neil would step in if I'm hit by a bus >> He'd say the same things, and use about 1/4 of the words it takes me ;-) > > So far in this thread, I've managed about 0/4 of the words you've used... > Oh damn! > > But yes, a build host and adding --usepkg=y to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in > make.conf gives a massive speed increase. Run the build host in an easily > recovered environment, like a VM, and you don't even have to monitor the > world update on it, just run a script in the early hours that does emerge > --sync && emerge -uXX @world and check your mailbox for errors before > running emerge on the "clients". The use clusterssh or dsh to update them > all at once.
I'm hoping to update everything on my own laptop before I have the laptop clients update. If I install everything on my own laptop that any of the clients have installed, I should be able to avoid any update trouble on the clients. clusterssh or dsh sounds like a good method for updating the clients. Basically, once I update everything on my laptop and it looks good, I want to be able to send the clients a signal to update as well. - Grant
