Bug 25651

Summary:	Portage supporting multiple clients at once
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Frido Ferdinand <frido.ferdinand>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	radek
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.subverted.net/wakka/wakka.php?wakka=GoldServerTheory
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Frido Ferdinand 2003-07-31 10:58:29 UTC

It would be great if portage could track dependencies on multiple systems. This
way things like: emerge --client="host.domain.tld" could become possible which
is very welcome when administrating multiple clients. The 'pushing/pulling' of
updates should be modular (rsync/nfs come to mind)

See some details on the URL above (Gentoo Server Implementation).

Reproducible: Always
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This is just brainstorming, I would like to know how feasible this is in portage.

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-12 16:10:04 UTC

I have this on my list of things to eventually get done for
Enterprise-level support... Using CORBA/bonobo, most likely.

It's a ways off though. Maybe very late 2004 or 2005.

Comment 2 Eric Brown 2004-07-26 19:10:06 UTC

what if you just had the clients poll the server, and if the server was told to provide updates for that host/package, it would.  this way you don't hafta run any daemons on the clients.

Comment 3 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-27 23:10:12 UTC

Slapping this as a dupe of the enterprise portage bug (this is a bug specific to modifying the emerge tool to control remote clients, see bug 10149 for the preferred approach).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10149 ***