On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 20:02 +0200, Robert Šmol wrote:
> Can you explain more about your project?

Not really... it's something under development and quite a ways away
from seeing the light of day.

> PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://packages.builder.domain/<machine-type>/"

Well, I'm using catalyst to do the building.

> Slave - hey, this is my /var/lib/portage/world, my USE flags
> (/etc/make.conf) and I want such and such package

Wow!  That sure sounds a lot like what catalyst does.  If only we had a
way to specify settings for packages and such... something like a
profile.  Maybe even if we had a file we could give catalyst, some kind
of specification... Oh wait... *grin*

> Master - calculating a bit and providing Slave with packages

catalyst -f packages.spec && rsync --archive
--delete-after /var/tmp/catalyst/packages/$rel_type/$target-$subarch-$rel_ver/* master:/exports/packages/$target/$subarch/$rel_ver
> 
> (but this is overkill)

...or is it?

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Games Developer