From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13056 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Apr 2003 08:06:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30148 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2003 08:06:48 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 01:06:39 -0700 From: Abhishek Amit To: Michael Boman Cc: Gentoo Development List Message-ID: <20030413080638.GA17911@datalap.aamit.com> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Boman , Gentoo Development List References: <20030413153621.D21077@securecirt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030413153621.D21077@securecirt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only offer pre-compiled packages? X-Archives-Salt: 2f7544e7-63b8-4ad1-a7bb-6312d2c5dcbf X-Archives-Hash: 6d29850bded5b49560a62e4ff326c57f On 15:36 Sun 13 Apr , Michael Boman wrote: > Is there a way to let machines only see (updated) pre-compiled packages > when they do 'emerge -p world'? I am thinking of providing a local > repository of "authorized/tested" software over NFS and when you do > 'emerge world' it will take the latest version from the pre-compiled > pile of packages, totally ignoring what is availble as ebuild's from > rsync.gentoo.org or in the PORTAGE_OVERLAY dir.. > > Doable? How? > > Best regards > Michael Boman > > -- > Michael Boman > Security Architect, SecureCiRT Pte Ltd > http://www.securecirt.com One other way I can think of doing this is modifying your portge tree and share the whole thing over NFS, as opposed to only sharing the binaries. Then the computers would not need to sync using rsync.gentoo.org, and your server could, where you could keep your tree with only the packages you want. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list