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On Wednesday 28 October 2009 02:28:43 James wrote: |
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> PS, if one of you really smart guys figures out mass/parallel |
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> upgrades, then I'd use that, even set up my own server |
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> to keep it efficient. I'm not smart enough (not enough time |
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> at current mental aptitude) to set all of that up, unless |
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> somebody else does the foundational work..... |
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> But I very much like the concept. Upgrade a master system. |
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> Test it. Then push your own binaries/files to the other systems |
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> you manage. Somebody figures that out, i.e. works out the bugs, |
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> Gentoo is going mainstream...... If someone did that, they could |
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> just put their admin scripts and settings in an ebuild. Then users |
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> could just emerge that ebuild and set the list of installed packages. |
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> VERY COOL. |
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All that already exists and is fully supported by portage. Build your packages |
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on one central machine and pull them from the workstations. |
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"man emerge" and search for BINHOST. |
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The only catch is to define the various settings (USE, CHOST, CFLAGS) to |
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something compatible with all your machines. This is not a big deal, it's the |
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kind of decisions a binary distro must make and those work fine |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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