Re: [gentoo-dev] making %95 of users happy

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@cs.kun.nl>]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 21:35, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> "Todd Wright" <wylie@geekasylum.org> writes:
>
>   [ ... ]
>
> > "*Portage allows you to set up Gentoo Linux the way you like it*..."
> >
> > It doesnt. Just when I get it how I like it, it changes.
>
>   cheap shot, nobody forces you to do an --update world.  still, some
>   extra measures are needed, and I for one will try to see how it can
>   be done.  :)

Why not create a new profile, call it gentoo-stable-1.0 or whatever, and fix 
the packages that are part of it. At the moment a security update is needed 
(or a critical bug gets fixed), the packages involved can be bumped in the 
profile. It is possible with the current architecture, it only needs some 
extra files in cvs, and an explanation on the website.

Paul

ps.
In case you have a network of gentoo machines, you can also make your own 
personalised profile (and mount /usr/portage/profiles in over nfs or similar)

pps.
If you run a webserver locally and have a lot of gentoo machines, it is very 
useful to serve the /usr/portage/distfiles dir on the webserver, and to name 
this dir as first mirror in your make.conf. This way emerge will first try to 
download something locally, when that failes it will try the normal mirrors.

-- 
Paul de Vrieze
Junior Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
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