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Wow! |
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That's a Gentoo-minded admin. :) |
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That would be easy too.. make a tarball of the binary kernel, copy the |
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standard kernel ebuild and add a new section to drop the binaries in place |
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from the new tarball, then put the new ebuild in an overlay! |
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Petteri, that is one very elegant idea! Kudos! (I'll make note of it for |
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future kit rollouts myself!) |
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--Todd |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Petteri Räty <petteri.raty@××××××××××.fi> |
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To: gentoo-server@l.g.o |
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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:59:46 +0200 |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] binary kernel package |
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> Thilo Bangert kirjoitti: |
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> > |
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> > i'd like to avoid having to compile a kernel on each and every host. |
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> how |
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> > do you install a prebuilt kernel onto the host, fx. after having |
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> deployed |
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> > a stage4 using quickstart? the best thing i can come up with is |
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> writing |
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> > my own custom script, which pulls a tarball via http. the tarball has |
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> the |
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> > modules, the initrd and the kernel... |
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> > |
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> You could write an ebuild installing a binary kernel to /boot |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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