[arch-general] Keeping multiple machines in sync. and updated [Re: A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds]

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:35:14 Mauro Santos wrote:
> Currently for my personal use I don't want anything else other than Arch
> but for machines that have more users and _need_ to keep working I'm
> using centos (devs I'm sorry to hinder your world domination plans but I
> think I'm not competent enough to manage Arch on a server so better use
> something that in theory will give me less surprises).

There are multiple issues at work here

- updateing multiple machines automatically, possibly from one master copy. 
e.g. I have 3 desktop machines out of which I use 2 regularly and I have to 
spend sometime upgrading even if the cache is shared.

- for server install minimal is better and arch can be tweaked down to bare 
minimum necessary.

- testing for upgrades. I think something like linux containers would be handy 
here to upgrade things and test. If the multiple sync. method is available, 
then things can be easily synced. to-and-from. Kernle upgrades are the only 
exception.

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Regards 
 Shridhar