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 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. This is just brainstorming, I would like to know how feasible this is in portage.
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.
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.
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 ***
