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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Sounds like you're volunteering, Alan. |
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> I do have some of the required skills, and I have free time right now. |
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Ah; stepping up are we? I'll be hoping you are taking requests on |
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the 'portage thingy' ? |
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How'z about extending emerge with a few extra commands & operands :: ? |
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that installs a new gentoo system (image) via an ansible file(s)? |
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Stephan put some stuff up a while back, but I have not gotten |
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back around to testing it. I recall you had some early workings too? |
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There's even some open source work on an ansible gui [1]: |
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If we have some quick way to install, then systems could be setup, |
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customized, used for testing and torn down again, all in a few hours? I'd |
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focus on simple, minimized installs and it would give the user base a way to |
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duplicate systems for problem verification and resolution. Also, as |
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clusters, clouds and various virtualizations continue to mature, it could |
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also aid in other forms of gentoo image debugging and verification |
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if bugs exist only in virtualized form or also in traditional installs. |
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Just a few thoughts; no big deal. If you step back a bit there are |
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many ways to approach portage/ebuild enhancements. |
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> Maybe I'll have a deeper look into portage's code with a view to |
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> improving this area. No promises thought |
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The dev repos and project repos are good places to start [2,3]: |
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[1] https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore |
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[2] http://gitweb.gentoo.org/ |
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[3] http://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/ |
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