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Thierry Carrez wrote: |
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> Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: |
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>>I think most of the assumptions that you're making involve giving your |
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>>user population root access. |
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>>Don't |
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> The assumptions I am making are clearly not involving giving a user |
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> population root access. I just point to the lack of tools to maintain |
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> semi-frozen trees and to automate software updates on a large enterprise |
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> desktop deployment, and try to see if this gathers interest. I fail to |
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> see where I need to give wheel to user. |
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> My position would rather be that workstations don't need a portage tree |
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> or an emerge command. A software deployment server could push package |
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> installation on workstations and keep track of what's installed where |
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> and with which configuration files. |
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Would the semi-frozen tree you're looking for be embodied by GLEP 14? (I |
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think it would for my needs.) Imagine if you could do something like this: |
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# emerge --securityupdates world |
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And you would get only the updates required by GLSA's that affect /your/ |
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machine. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0014.html |
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This is similar to what Enterprises do with Windows installations, and I |
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honestly think GLEP 14 could become portage's killer feature benefiting |
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'normal' users and enterprise users alike. |
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The ability to push updates from a central location is, of course, a |
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separate matter. :) |
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Nathan |
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