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On Saturday 15 November 2008 19:40:50 Simon wrote: |
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> This is not super efficient, but the way I've thought it, should be |
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> simple to do... a simple gentoo hack so to speak. However, I'm wondering |
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> if anybody has suggestion for better ways to do this and if you could give |
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> me pointers to such projects. Also keep in mind that I really really want |
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> to update ALL my PCs with a single `emerge -uDN world` on the host, then |
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> copy new pkgs (using rsync or other) to the PCs and do an `emerge -k -uDN |
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> world` on them. Nothing more. (So unless your suggestion is simpler than |
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> my current (fully installed) setup, please tell me!) |
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I would build all that stuff in a chroot. The logic is that the your buildhost |
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system is not quite the same thing as the machine hosting the buildhost. |
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One thing you cannot get away from is that to build say X for your slow |
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hardware, it has to be done on a machine that has all X's build dependencies |
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fully installed and working. You might not want that on your production |
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server. Some fancy tricks with bind-mounts into the chroot would let you |
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share common stuff. Or, you could simply buy a bit more storage if you are |
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running out. It's cheap enough and if you've gone to this much trouble |
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already, some more storage would be minor |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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