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On Friday 13 December 2002 17:49, Chad Huneycutt wrote: |
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|| On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:26, Blake Watters wrote: |
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|| > I've just started whipping up a samhain ebuild and I was immediately |
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|| > struck by the question of how to deal with determining the |
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|| > client/server role (I'm interested in centralized monitoring) of the |
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|| > machine during ebuild installation. Basically you have to enable |
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|| > client/server role at configuration time. So I either have to prompt |
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|| > the user interactively (something I haven't seen done in an ebuild and |
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|| > seems to run contrary to the nature of portage) or determine it with |
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|| > something like a use flag. But I also seem to remember something about |
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|| > a policy against adding use flag willy-nilly to Portage. What's the |
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|| > preferred way to deal with a situation like this? |
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|| Seems like a good reason to split the ebuild into samhain-server and |
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|| samhain-client. |
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My thoughts exactly. |
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Bart Verwilst |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team |
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