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Matthew Marlowe <mattm@g.o> posted |
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200609190105.52215.mattm@g.o, excerpted below, on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 |
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>> I've created a new project, called Gentoo Seeds [1]. The aim of the |
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>> project is to create stage4 tarballs which can be used to 'seed' new boxes |
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>> with ready-built Gentoo solutions. |
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> Can we integrate this somehow with a project (new?) to build ready-to-use |
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> vmware or xen images? It would be silly to duplicate the work, and |
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> testing would be much better this way. |
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> I would see the workflow proceed in the following manner: |
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> Releng herd makes available new official gentoo releases |
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> After a few weeks, the seeds herd takes releng product and creates new |
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> application/environment specific stage4 images |
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> Then, after a few more weeks, the virtualization herd takes seed |
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> product and adds appropriate vmware/xen/etc modifications to create |
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> ready-to-run virtualization images. |
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The name for those, then, naturally follows: "seedlings". |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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