On 12/26/14, Jeff Mitchell jeffrey.mitchell@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 25, 2014 3:15 PM, "Reindl Harald" h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
your Gentoo is nice in a small environment
on larger setups someone is using binary packages and can setup his own
repo with overrides while maintain *testable* setups
Just to point out, it is possible to set up a binary Gentoo setup with a single server compiling packages then made available to downstream computers -- I ran such a setup for a few years. Can also have multiple of these in an overlay fashion for testing. Pros and cons vs. normal binary distros, but it can be done.
As we do today for some 417 servers (real servers, not virtual crap), its very easy to do, even my previous employer who used slackware with a few hundred servers used almost identical fashion.
Amazing at how rpm and deb users think they are the only ones in this world who can manage large enterprise server farms, just shows how narrow sighted and ill-informed they are.