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Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: |
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> On Sunday 21 Jun 2015 22:02:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > portage for a long long time went in /usr/portage because that's where |
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> > FreeBSD put it, and drobbins was mightily enthralled by FreeBSD. |
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There is no dir '/var/portage' on my system. Yet this command works fine: |
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"PORTAGE_PROFILE=/var/portage/profiles/default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a eix -c |
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--system " |
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Strange, to say the least. |
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> > But it's a stupid place for it to go on Linux and most of the sane |
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> > technical Gentoo world agrees it really is a better fit in /var/portage. |
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> > However, due to a highly unlikely confluence of the phases of the moon |
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> > and an oddly-painted bikeshed (aquamarine with ochre polka dots), no-one |
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> > seems to have ever gotten around to actually fixing it once and for all |
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> > everywhere. |
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"pig-mess" like I said earlier. |
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> > Bottom line: folks will see both in real life. |
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> > Procedure: If you have the one, and see the other, then just change the |
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> > top-level dir in what you see. |
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> Or, as I do, put it in its own partition and you can mount it wherever |
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> you like. Just point make.conf and repos.conf/gentoo.conf at it. |
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Yea, yea, I can make a custom mess too: aka brilliantly (in my own mind) |
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organize it, I mean. |
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The bottom line for me is: |
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1) folks should be able to migrated up and down the profile tree. It's give |
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us some neat abilities. If I have a workstation that becomes old, I could |
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change the profile and move it'down' to default or embedded and turn it |
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into a decicated, minimized router, firewall, bridge, sniffer etc etc. I |
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think the offcial word is changing profiles is not recommended. |
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2) Some thing of a profile needs to exist between an embedded system |
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(busybox only) and the default. |
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3) I'm looking forward to a gentoo-standard where systems can be fully |
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audited to account for each and every file. Sure you can do this now, if you |
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plann and do lots of things from the beginning as well as with every |
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install. Maybe Glep64 will be the catalyst for system tools to support this |
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(security) feature. |
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4) most importantly: my cluster research and experiences have yielded a |
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startling and wonderful epiphany. That is Clusters/clouds/<distributed |
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whatever> runs fastest and most reliably on bare metal. Embedded Gentoo is |
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my pathway to direct and easy access to bare metal clusters. Cleaning up the |
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profiles just seems logical to me, after noodling around with in the |
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profiles...... |
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5) Also, security in the cluster/cloud world is almost impossible building |
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clusters on top of 'bloated OSes and bloated system packages'. YMMV. |
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Containers nor VM is going to keep clusters/clouds secure; and those sort of |
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herculean efforts, currently underway, are akin to patching a 200 year old, |
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worm infested, wooden ship, whilst rounding Cape Horn..... |
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It's actually hilarious to watch and listen to these fools...... The NSA |
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is probably clandestinely cloud funding all these cloud vendors..... |
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(ah ha ha ha ha ha) ! |
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Thanks to all for the education. |
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HI_ho HI_ho |
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a profiling we go |
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HI_ho HI_ho, |
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James |
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