Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Stuart Bouyer <stubear@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:45:40
Message-Id: 20030818234528.59c85c24.stubear@bouyer.no-ip.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large scale deployments - and portage by Brian Jackson
1 On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:42:30 -0500
2 Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > You could pin packages in the world file (/var/cache/edb/world).
5 >
6 > <apache-2
7 > <courier-0.42.3
8 > <mysql-4.0.5
9 >
10 > etc. etc. Then copy that file to each server, and tada, you've got a
11 > standard profile type thing.
12 >
13 > --Brian Jackson
14 >
15
16 That works fine UNTIL a package is removed from the portage tree, then
17 you have to go and try to get it (and the various others that went with
18 it) back using the cvsweb interface - lots of fun I can tell you.
19
20 There was some mention a month or so ago about tagging the cvs tree, but
21 it seems to have been lost in the hype over 1.4 release. Maybe someday??
22
23 StuBear
24
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