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On 24-06-2008 17:54:42 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> > Neither of these issues is a huge deal, as we're happy just |
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> > distributing new images from time to time and not making our devs deal |
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> > with system management, but there've been several times when I've |
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> > wanted these flexibilities from portage. |
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> So you want to avoid having your devs dealing with system management |
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> yet allow them to customize the install? Is that right? I imagine |
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> deploying a NFS mounted 'image' may be easier and allow the sys-admins |
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> (you) to update the prefix when you want to. However, I do know that |
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> grobian has worked on a "stage4" type install that allow you to |
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> 'transplant' prefixes much like you are describing. I will let him |
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> comment on that. Sorry I am of not much help at the moment. |
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Portage is not designed to be "handed over" to anyone. However, there |
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should be just one place in Portage itself where the user is set (this |
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pym/portage/const_autotool.py). It may implicitly encode it in |
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installed packages, but this is due to the nature of those packages that |
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do that themselves. |
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Maybe one of the two following things is interesting to you: |
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- binary packages |
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Prefix Portage can install from binary packages made for "another" |
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Prefix. You could use them to get each developer to quickly get up to |
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speed, in their own Prefix installation. |
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- alternate Prefix |
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Setting the EPREFIX variable in the environment makes Portage respect |
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that location, and install in the location pointed to by $EPREFIX. |
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This is what Jeremy hinted on, and would allow an existing Prefix |
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installation to "clone" itself by installing in another location. The |
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username problems wouldn't go away, but I guess we could fix that in |
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the ebuild (right now it copies them from the current Portage). |
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Binary packages are somewhat tested, the alternate Prefix I really |
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played with, but haubi and mduft use it, if I recall correctly. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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