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Hi! Thanks replying so quickly. Your answers are helpful. |
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John Davis wrote: |
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>I assume that you are planning on using the tarballs solely for |
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>installs, correct? The binary packages that you build can be installed |
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>via Portage over an NFS share or something. |
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Yes. That's my plan. |
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>Instead of tinderboxes, consider using the "grp" target. Tinderboxes are |
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>used more for building a set of packages and then logging the successes/ |
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>failures. The "grp" target will do exactly what you are looking for and |
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>will organize all of the binary packages by profile type, arch, etc. Let |
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>me know if you need help on how to setup a grp build. |
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I had dismissed using GRP before because it didn't seem to be what I |
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wanted. I will look more closely at it now. |
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>Catalyst supports the configuration files in /etc/portage. Just add the |
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>following to your spec file (works for any build target): |
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>portage_confdir: /etc/portage |
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Ahh, cool. I'm going to go bang on it some more and see what I get done. |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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