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Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: |
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> On 4/26/06, Kevin <lists@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> What I really want is to make the process of maintaining Gentoo boxes |
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>> over the long term easier (IOW: less time-consuming) than is now true, |
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>> by adding some functionality that AFAICT does not now exist which would |
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>> allow me to automate some things, turn off automation of other things, |
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>> and as the sysadmin, have control over what those things should be. In |
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>> my mind at least, the central theme in Gentoo of choice dovetails nicely |
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>> with what I'm trying to describe here: control and choice that is highly |
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>> fine-tunable by the owner of the box in regards to package upgrades. |
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> Have a look at GLCU (http://www.panhorst.com/glcu/). Might not be the |
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> perfect solution for your needs but it might help. Tools like this |
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> one, /etc/portage and a private overlay for testing and/or pinning |
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> would be pretty usefull for you right now. Might want to check GLEP 19 |
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> IIRC for the enterprise tree idea. |
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Thanks very kindly for your reply and pointer, Jean-Francois! |
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-Kevin |
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