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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 16:56, Stuart Bouyer wrote: |
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> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:14:46 +0000 |
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> Yes, I'm well aware of this (I used to be the CJK developer before |
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> real-life rudely interrupted), and this |
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> is my biggest concern with Gentoo at the momoent, there is no way (apart |
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> from the snapshots Christian mentioned) to ensure that 2 instalations on |
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> the same "release" will be the same. In an office environment where I'm |
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> mainitaining 50+ machines this is a major concern for me. I know that |
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> with my Mandrake or RedHat install disks all machines are running the |
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> same versions of applications, but with Gentoo this is not true unless |
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> all machines are installed and updated at the same time. |
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> Sometimes Gentoo is just a little too bleeding-edge |
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In such a case you might want to run your own cvs ( or subversion) tree of |
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"sanctioned ebuilds", and instead of emerge sync run cvs update on the |
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slaves. You then can copy only interesting ebuilds to the cvs tree, and only |
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wanted changes. Of course this is more work, but if it should not be too hard |
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to create a "custom tree" based on the ebuilds that are currently installed. |
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You could put that tree, with the required distfiles on a custom gentoo |
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bootcd, which you could use to install all clients. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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