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Hey, |
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On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> Hi, It is great to hear that Gentoo Prefix works for you in a |
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> corporate setting! Mind if I poll you about how many workstations your |
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> distribute your Gentoo Prefix 'image' to? |
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We have I guess five Mac laptops and two Minis that mount a DMG at |
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login. It's not quite 'corporate' yet -- we're just a web startup, and |
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infrastructure is still fairly ad-hoc. |
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Actually, on my mini I copied the contents over to /gentoo (since my |
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root filesystem is case-sensitive, unlike others'), hence the question |
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about re-basing. I've set EPREFIX, and from a quick test that looks |
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like it works great, thanks Jeremy and Fabian. |
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> So you want to avoid having your devs dealing with system management |
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> yet allow them to customize the install? Is that right? I imagine |
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> deploying a NFS mounted 'image' may be easier and allow the sys-admins |
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> (you) to update the prefix when you want to. However, I do know that |
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> grobian has worked on a "stage4" type install that allow you to |
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> 'transplant' prefixes much like you are describing. I will let him |
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> comment on that. Sorry I am of not much help at the moment. |
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Right. I thought about the NFS thing, or else rsync. We often work on |
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laptops away from the office, so NFS over our VPN probably wouldn't be |
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a lot of fun. We went with the DMG because macs have case-insensitive |
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filesystems by default, so a disk image seemed safer. |
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I think we could all be using the same install pretty easily, except |
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that sometimes a developer needs to experiment with a library they're |
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considering using, and it's convenient to be able to install that with |
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gem (and hence into the prefix). |
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Is there some kind of roadmap somewhere for the Gentoo prefix? Like, |
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what are the major things being worked on now, and how much work |
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remains before we could think about merging into mainline? |
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Thanks all, |
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Peter |
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