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oh, and it surely would be usefull for single gentoo boxes too, as many |
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users already requested things like auto-update for configs, rollback |
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and ptree in a db. i guess you should work closely with the gentoo-devs |
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as this would enhance portage as a whole. |
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Chris wrote: |
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>this sounds like a very great project, i hope you get it done fully, as |
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>i surely would have use for it (got a whole bunch of gentoo-boxes, with |
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>different archs) |
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>plz keep us informed and also put your longer doc online, as i'm not |
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>scared to read some 50 pages about an interesting project like this :) |
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>greets, Chris |
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>Ricardo Loureiro wrote: |
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>>Hi, |
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>>I'm finishing my masters and as final project I decided to make a |
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>>"portage" that would work well on a network environment, in this case |
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>>a software development lab. My idea is to put portage on a database |
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>>and create tools that would allow clients to request packages to a |
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>>central machine that would calculate dependencies, compile them and |
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>>install on the client. This is the quick-and-dirty short description, |
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>>it's more complex than that =) |
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>>First i'd like to know the status of the Gentoo-Server Project, since |
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>>it's not updated since July 2003. |
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>>Second, I wrote a quick draft of what i'm planning to do for my |
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>>project and would like some feedback since it may be useful to |
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>>gentoo-server. The doc is available at |
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>>http://student.dei.uc.pt/~rjlouro/gentoo-server.pdf |
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>>Please note it's quite simple cause I didn't want to bore ppl, i've |
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>>already wrote much more than that for my report and will be happy to |
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>>provide all info needed, but I don't want to scare ppl with very long |
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>>stuff, if you feel this can be usefull to gentoo great, i'd love to |
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>>give all of it back. |
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>>Regards, |
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>>Ricardo Loureiro |
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>>http://pgp.dei.uc.pt:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6B7C0EC0 |
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