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Hi Ron, |
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On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:09 pm, Ron O'Hara wrote: |
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> If it were possible to 'tag' the portage tree with labels at regular |
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> intervals, and and do an 'emerge sync' with a nominated 'tag' - then you |
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> would have the equivelant of the fixed points that other distributions |
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> have when they cut a release CD. |
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It's an interesting idea ;-) |
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You might want to have a look at running your own (internal) rsync mirror for |
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your Gentoo boxes - and your own (internal) distfiles mirror too. This gives |
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you complete control over what ebuilds your many Gentoo machines will get, |
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and ensures that you can roll out software long after it has been removed |
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from Gentoo's portage (we delete 'old' files all the time, when we believe |
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they're obsolete, which really screws up consistency across a large |
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deployment. However, with your own internal mirror, you can keep these |
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ebuilds and their distfiles around long after Gentoo has dropped them!) |
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Tbh, it's a hack, rather than a nice solid server/client enterprise-ready |
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Portage solution, but it's one that does work. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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