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On 01/23/2017 04:23 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi, everyone. |
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> I've written a short proposal that aims to provide basic infrastructure |
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> for defining mix-in profiles in Gentoo. I've tried to keep it simple, |
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> and backwards compatible. The main goal is to be able to start defining |
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> some mix-ins without having to reinvent the whole profile tree. |
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> Most important points: |
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> 1. Mix-ins are applied on top of base profile (which works the same as |
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> before), |
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> 2. Mix-ins are supported via 'eselect profile' |
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> replacing /etc/portage/make.profile symlink with a directory, without |
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> need for Portage patching (this is how Funtoo does it), |
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> 3. Most important mix-ins are used to construct base profiles which |
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> provides both backwards compatibility and proper targets for repoman |
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> (to avoid having to check all possible mix-in combinations). |
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> |
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> Complete text: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Mix-ins |
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> Please review. |
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On 01/23/2017 04:30 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi, everyone. |
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> |
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> I've written a short proposal that aims to provide basic infrastructure |
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> for defining mix-in profiles in Gentoo. I've tried to keep it simple, |
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> and backwards compatible. The main goal is to be able to start defining |
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> some mix-ins without having to reinvent the whole profile tree. |
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> |
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> Most important points: |
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> |
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> 1. Mix-ins are applied on top of base profile (which works the same as |
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> before), |
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> |
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> 2. Mix-ins are supported via 'eselect profile' |
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> replacing /etc/portage/make.profile symlink with a directory, without |
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> need for Portage patching (this is how Funtoo does it), |
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> |
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> 3. Most important mix-ins are used to construct base profiles which |
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> provides both backwards compatibility and proper targets for repoman |
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> (to avoid having to check all possible mix-in combinations). |
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> |
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> Complete text: |
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> |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Mix-ins |
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> |
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> Please review. |
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> |
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Hello Michal, |
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Excellent work. My cluster development work is (minimal and embedded |
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gentoo) systems that are dynamically able to coalesce into various |
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cluster configurations, very similar to how 'unikernels' work. [1] |
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I'm curious how 'mix-in' profiles might be used to build from bare-metal |
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up a minimized gentoo cluster, just a skeleton approach using mix-in |
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profiles? |
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[1] http://unikernel.org/ |
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