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> Hi all, |
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> We have a prefixed Gentoo disk image here at our office that we |
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> distribute to developers on OS X boxes so they can run full |
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> development environments locally. It has postgresql, memcached, and |
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Very, very cool :) I did about the same for Windows here at our company, only in a more generic manner. I have a setup program installing the prefix into a specific location, and adapting the config files to make the installing user the owner of the prefix. I plan to share those images with the public, but am still looking for a place to put them at (1.5Gb for three CD images...) |
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@grobian: what about such a place. Should I talk to infra, or will you again? Whom could I contact from gentooexperimental.org for example (although I like the idea of the images being hosted on some g.o server, that would be more official...) |
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Cheers, Markus |
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> Presently, the images are pretty much fixed once they're distributed |
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> -- any updates have to come from the person who made the image. It |
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> seems that their username is hard-coded in some scripts and config |
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> files here and there, and emerge is unhappy if run by a different |
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> user. I've changed those entries manually before, but I'm wondering if |
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> it's really necessary that the username be hard-coded anywhere? Would |
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> it be easy to make the code user-agnostic? |
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> It would be even more awesome to keep installs agnostic with respect |
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> to where they are mounted, but I'm guessing this would be a much |
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> larger undertaking, requiring more fundamental changes to portage. |
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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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> Thanks, |
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> Peter |
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