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Hi Karl, |
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On Mon, 21 May 2007, Karl Holz wrote: |
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> >Is there a way to run gentoo without a portage tree on each box? |
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> yes, if you setup a build system, using a stage3 tarball, and build your |
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> system into a directory. Portage will only be under your /usr/portage and not |
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> into the system image you're building. the good thing about using a Stage3 |
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> tarball is you can build you system on any linux system, build your system |
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> image, tarball the image, deploy and install grub on x86, yaboot on Mac PPC, |
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> silo on Sparc64. |
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How are updates handled? "emerge -uD <pkg|world>" isn't going to work |
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without a portage tree, so I presume I'd need to tell each server which |
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packages need to be updated with "emerge <pkg1> <pkg2> ... <pkgn>" to have |
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it download them from the binhost? |
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-Ronan |
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