Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating tbz2 or RPMS from ebuild for different hosts!

["Dietrich Heise" <dietrich@pegestorf.de>]

Hi,

> We are currently using Redhat Linux distribution on our servers and we 
> are now looking forward to switch to Gentoo as a possible candidate, 
> starting from an official Gentoo 1.4 release! 
> 
> Before switching to Gentoo we have some questions, and, please,
>  appologize us if these questions have been asked before - I just 
> couldn't find any gentoo mailing lists archive on the site! Also we have 
> looked at the Gentoo forums, but didn't find a comprehensive answer!
> 
> We will manage different servers and we will need to compile and build 
> packages for those servers! So, is it possible to compile and build a 
> software packages from ebuilds on a host for different hosts? Also can 
> we control, what support (e.g. DB, LDAP, SSL, etc...) to include in the 
> package? 

I think if all servers are the same architecture (maybe x86) and U use the flags
that all your server understand it should be no problem to create binaries.

man emerge (rtfm) 

       --buildpkg (-b)
              Tells emerge  to  build  binary  packages  for  all
              ebuilds  processed  in addition to actually merging
         [...]

Dietrich

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