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From: "Sieb
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Another query.. this time about installprofile. xml
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:39:21
Message-Id: 275654F2AE237D438ACC1FE2697CD8C91C4E0071@nj7460exch008u.ho.lucent.com
1 Chris said:
2 > Yes but that's not clean
3
4 Understood. I'm _very_ new to Gentoo. I've spent the past 6 years supporting FreeBSD systems, and I'm being thrown into the deep end of the pool at this new job ;-)
5
6 > Use the same portage tree, have only the package version(s)
7 > you want avaliable. The installer has the option to use nfs
8 > mounts, webrsync, standard rsync, or a URI to a snapshot
9 > (which can be both local or remote).
10
11 Gotcha. So in the installprofile.xml I can set:
12
13 <portage-snapshot>
14 file:///mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20060123.tar.bz2
15 </portage-snapshot>
16
17 To be something more like:
18
19 >
20 > > Thank you all in advance!
21 > > Best,
22 > > --Glenn
23 > >
24 > > --
25 > > Glenn E. Sieb, MTS
26 > > sieb@××××××.com
27 > > +1 732 949 5453
28 >
29 > Chris White
30 >
31
32 --
33 Glenn E. Sieb, MTS
34 sieb@××××××.com
35 +1 732 949 5453
36
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