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Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@××××××.nl> writes: |
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> Why not create a new profile, call it gentoo-stable-1.0 or whatever, |
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> and fix the packages that are part of it. At the moment a security |
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> update is needed (or a critical bug gets fixed), the packages |
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> involved can be bumped in the profile. It is possible with the |
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> current architecture, it only needs some extra files in cvs, and an |
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> explanation on the website. |
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the only problem I see with using a profile is that it'll "lock" you |
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down more than you'd like. it would be nice to say "give me a |
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stable core, but a bleeding edge movieplayer and games". |
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> If you run a webserver locally and have a lot of gentoo machines, it |
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> is very useful to serve the /usr/portage/distfiles dir on the |
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> webserver, and to name this dir as first mirror in your |
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> make.conf. This way emerge will first try to download something |
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> locally, when that failes it will try the normal mirrors. |
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nah, I just run my own mirror of Gentoo. so much easier and a lot |
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less fuzz. :) |
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Terje |
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