Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage through SSH

[Douglas Russell]

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I think this kind of capability is what is being developed by the 
gentoo-server people...

Puggy

On Sunday 31 August 2003 7:14 pm, John Nilsson wrote:
> Some requirement thoughts:
> A network of gentoo hosts should have only one portage processing server
> and any number of installation leafs.
>
> First of all portage needs to easily handle more than one installation.
> Second the "leaf-installations" should have a very strict minimum
> requiremnts.
> Third redundancy is probably important. The information to restore a
> lost "leaf" should be availible on booth the portage host and on the
> leaf it self.
>
> /John
>
> Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > On 31/08/2003 at 17:15:02(+0200), John Nilsson used 2.0K just to say:
> >>For me the problem is that the machines cant even run emerge sync, much
> >>less search for deps and that kind of calculations. I want EVERYTHING
> >>portage to be executed on one host (or with distcc a selected few) but
> >>still be able to manage the software on the other hosts. Best would be
> >>if I could uninstall portage from the other hosts completely.
> >
> > You can mount the remote filesystems over nfs and then set
> > ROOT=/mnt/remote to make the portage on the original system install stuff
> > on the remote one. This method also has its problems of course. Last time
> > I tried it -- I had lots of trouble with for example mplayer
> > autodetecting some libraries on the compiling computer that are not
> > installed on the slow host that I was compiling for. Even emerge -p was
> > failing because the version of glibc on the compiling system was older
> > (only by a release) than the one on the remote system.
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22722
> >
> > Another thing I tried -- mount the remote filesystems with full
> > permissions, chroot over there and start compiling. You may want to
> > "mount -o bind /var/tmp/portage /mnt/remote/var/tmp/portage" and also do
> > the same with /usr/portage. I of course assume that programs compiled on
> > the slow machine would run on the fast one as well (and this is usually
> > the case).
>
> --
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