From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 31 22:23:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A1516A401 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from mail.kuban.ru (mail.kuban.ru [62.183.66.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C27913C494 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from bsam.ru ([85.172.12.15]) by mail.kuban.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id l0VLx512032202; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:59:19 +0300 (MSK) Received: from bsam by bsam.ru with local (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HCNTB-0000KZ-Ep; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:58:21 +0300 To: Paul Chvostek References: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:58:21 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca> (Paul Chvostek's message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:49 -0500") Message-ID: <89265650@bsam.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Boris Samorodov Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package management on many hosts X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:23:49 -0000 On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:49 -0500 Paul Chvostek wrote: > How are people handling package version consistency in large groups of > servers? If you have a web farm with 10 hosts, plus 3 hosts in a QA > farm, and you want to make sure you're using the same version everywhere > and upgrading production to the version you tested last week in QA, do > you just do it manually, perhaps using portdowngrade on each host, or > installing binary packages built on one host? /usr/ports/misc/tinderbox is a very good tool to get the needed packages (perhaps with multiple portstrees, environments etc.) Then after testing you may do a "portupgrade -PP" to upgrade your server's soft. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve