Re: [gentoo-server] status update

[stephen white]

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 03:06 AM, tigger@g.o wrote:
> Please come and talk on #gentoo-server if at all possible. Its much
> easier to discuss these things real time.

There's been a good discussion about DHCP and zeroconf. I agree that we 
should handle multiple booting methods.

When conclusions have been reached in IRC discussions, please 
cross-post the logs to the mailing list to ensure that everyone has a 
chance to see how the project is developing.

Speaking of which, I'll be documenting a few ideas for how to handle 
the overall functionality of the project. It basically boils down to 
extending ebuild files with additional management information... eg, 
which files to save and retrieve from CVS, and special backup 
instructions (mainly for databases).

So the gentoo-server project would consist of several grouped ebuilds 
for areas of functionality (eg, pxeboot, zeroconfboot) on the gold 
server, plus extended information in various ebuild files for building 
services on other machines. We don't necessarily have to extend portage 
to handle the additional functionality, since ebuilds are just shell 
scripts and can be called by anything.

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