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Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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> > I think all possible profiles for each and every type of gentoo install |
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> > should either be readily available on any installed gentoo system, or |
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> > on theet or otherwise easy to parse. |
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> They already are, profiles are part of the portage tree. For example, on |
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> this amd64 box |
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> % PORTAGE_PROFILE=/var/portage/profiles/default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a eix |
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-c --system |
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> Found 42 matches. |
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I get that all the defaults, regardless of arch, have the same 42 list |
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of packages (at least what I have checked), even default for the arm |
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variants which are usually thought of as embedded. I get what Andreas |
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wrote finally where inheritance picks up other packages. |
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> The nil return before was caused by search in one of the arch |
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> directories, which are not complete profiles but data to be used by |
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> profiles. It is a little confusing, but if you stick to profiles under |
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> default/linux you should get useful information. |
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/usr/portage/profiles/embedded/packages shows: |
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*>=sys-apps/busybox-0.60.5-r1 |
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I guess that busybox is the only package that all (gentoo) embedded profiles |
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require. Granted I have not looked at all the variants of profile, including |
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embedded for the different arches found in gentoo. |
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I just think there should be a cleaner and quicker way to see these lists, |
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and I think there should be a 'standard way' to migrate between embedded |
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and default, for each and every arch variant. It's not been a clean nor easy |
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thing to ferret out, imho. Little documentation. I do appreciate your |
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efforts and the information provided by the others too. I think in the |
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new world of clusters running on bare metal to full, bloated distros, |
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gentoo should have a way to move between profiles, is a good idea. YMMV. |
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Granted workstations might not want to be part of this changing of profiles, |
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but for servers and focused, single purpose machines, moving from profile to |
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profile, should not be that big of a deal. This is all a work in progress |
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for me. The more I learn about clusters, the more it radically |
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changes what I have seen in the past of embedded systems and *nix systems. |
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Last, I'd just like share another insight. Clusters build on minimal or |
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embedded systems will be far easier to secure, because there's just less |
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to monitor for unauthorized changes. The biggest issue with Clusters and |
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Clouds, that nobody big talks about, are the rampant security problem therein. |
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Thanks, |
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James |
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