[gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Michael Dawson]

Is there any automated way to generate an install package (rpm,
whatever) from an emerge?  I want to emerge (retrieve, configure,
compile, install) on one workstation and then repeat just the
install phase on other workstations that I use.

I'm thinking of investigating how checkinstall can be integrated
with the emerge system
    http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
as it produces rpm's and is widely recommended.

But I'm checking to see that no one has already done something
similar, and I've missed it.

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    Michael Dawson

 

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Mark Guertin]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:16, Michael Dawson wrote:
> 
> Is there any automated way to generate an install package (rpm,
> whatever) from an emerge?  I want to emerge (retrieve, configure,
> compile, install) on one workstation and then repeat just the
> install phase on other workstations that I use.
> 

emerge -b (buildpkg) builds a tbz2 package which goes by default into
/usr/portage/packages/All/ .  Also see man ebuild, as you can also
generate rpm pkgs this way (not from emerge but from ebuild command)

Mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Mark Guertin]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:16, Michael Dawson wrote:
> 
> Is there any automated way to generate an install package (rpm,
> whatever) from an emerge?  I want to emerge (retrieve, configure,
> compile, install) on one workstation and then repeat just the
> install phase on other workstations that I use.
> 

emerge -b (buildpkg) builds a tbz2 package which goes by default into
/usr/portage/packages/All/ .  Also see man ebuild, as you can also
generate rpm pkgs this way (not from emerge but from ebuild command)

Mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Mark Guertin]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:16, Michael Dawson wrote:
> 
> Is there any automated way to generate an install package (rpm,
> whatever) from an emerge?  I want to emerge (retrieve, configure,
> compile, install) on one workstation and then repeat just the
> install phase on other workstations that I use.
> 

Also of note that i didn't mention in first post was to install on the
workstations, copy the pkgs into /usr/portage/packages/All, and do
emerge -u (usepkg) to install from them.

Mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:16:44AM -0600, Michael Dawson wrote:
> Is there any automated way to generate an install package (rpm,
> whatever) from an emerge?  I want to emerge (retrieve, configure,
> compile, install) on one workstation and then repeat just the
> install phase on other workstations that I use.

I have something that has a start of your features. Its very plain and
simple: it checks the files in the CONTENTS-file of the package and places it
in a tarball, together with the /var/db/pkg/[type]/[name]-[version] directory
contents so that portage thinks it has installed it by itself.

It also contains the magical word "system" which will make a tarball of the
packages that are listed in the file "packages", which has use for me, but
probably not for you.

#v+

#!/bin/bash

# $1 is kind/package-version or "system"
# $2 is tarfilename.tar

# Create the tarball, add something
tar cpf $2 /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-2

if [ $1 == "system" ] 
then
	for n in `cat packages`
	do
		echo "Adding $n"
		for p in `cat /var/db/pkg/$n/CONTENTS | cut -f 2 -d ' '`
		do
			if [ ! -d "$p" ] 
			then
				tar rpf stage3.tar "$p" 2>/dev/null
			fi
		done
	done
else 
	for p in `cat /var/db/pkg/$1/CONTENTS | cut -f 2 -d ' '`
	do
		if [ ! -d "$p" ]
		then
			tar rpf $2 "$p" 2>/dev/null;
		fi
	done
	tar rpf $2 /var/db/pkg/$1;
fi

gzip $2;

#v-

F.i.
	~# makebinary app-office/openoffice-1.0.1 OOo-1.0.1.tar
makes a tarball called "OOo-1.0.1.tar.gz" with all the files provided by an
"emerge openoffice".

HTH,
	Sven Vermeulen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Michael Dawson]

On October 3, 2002 09:46 am, Mark Guertin wrote:...
> emerge -u (usepkg) to install from them....

Thanks for your patience, Mark.  Looking it up, I think the -u is a
typo, and it's emerge -k.  Nice to find out I can just use the
system, without messing with the code.

Now I can take any queries about this to the user list.  I
(mis)understood some previous user posts to say that -b and -k did
not accomplish what I wanted.

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    Michael Dawson

 

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 18:13, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
>
> I have something that has a start of your features. Its very plain and
> simple: it checks the files in the CONTENTS-file of the package and places
> it in a tarball, together with the /var/db/pkg/[type]/[name]-[version]
> directory contents so that portage thinks it has installed it by itself.
>
> It also contains the magical word "system" which will make a tarball of the
> packages that are listed in the file "packages", which has use for me, but
> probably not for you.

Why not simply use /usr/lib/portage/bin/quickpkg ?

Paul

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Junior Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge once -- distribute resulting binaries across lan?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Friday 04 October 2002 17:08, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:33:10AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > Why not simply use /usr/lib/portage/bin/quickpkg ?
>
> 'cause I didn't know that existed. Where can one find information about
> these packages ?

The mailing list. And a look in that directory can also help.

Paul

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Junior Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net