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Hi, |
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:52:07 +0400 Jason Zaman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:05:04AM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > Maybe a bit off-topic, but occasionally I need a tool to "fast |
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> > install Gentoo and fine-tune it later". This happens quite often on |
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> > a new job box, oh during visits where I'm given a workstation and |
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> > 3-4 hours to set it up before doing real work and so on. |
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> > |
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> > The idea is to have binary-based Gentoo ready to work on general |
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> > common hardware with such software out of the box as fully-fledged |
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> > modern gui browsers (chromium, firefox), libreoffice, xterm, |
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> > screen, vim, compilers, ldap support and other dev tools. Set of |
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> > packages may vary, but the idea is that they should work out of the |
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> > box due to tight constrains on initial system configuration (boss |
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> > should see that I'm doing my job at the end of the day). |
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> > |
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> > But afterwards I'd like to tune this setup in a usual Gentoo way: |
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> > configure kernel, USE flags, {C,CXX,F,FC,LD}FLAGS, select proper |
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> > alternatives and so on more or less accordant to the devmanual. |
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> > |
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> > Self prepared catalyst build for general ~amd64 looks appropriate |
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> > to the task, but they require too much maintenance effort: each |
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> > update is a pain and quite time consuming and I need such images |
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> > only once or twice per year, but still I need them! |
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> > |
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> > In the ideal world it would be nice to have such stage4 ebuilds |
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> > available to speed-up initial installation and configuration |
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> > process. |
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> |
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> Take a look at the new project Blueness is working on: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS |
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> It basically builds binpkgs for a few standard configurations so it |
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> sounds exactly like what you want. |
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Thanks. Idea is really nice and when it'll be ready for real-life |
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usage, I'll try it too. But right now it is a work-in-progress and |
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I can't find any usable images. |
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For now for practical issues I'll look into Sabayon like |
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recommended by Duncan in another reply. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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