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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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other goodies pre-installed with the right USE flags. |
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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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