From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20333 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jun 2003 19:01:04 -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 19405 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2003 19:01:04 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:01:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030624005813.GA5061@cerberus.oppresses.us> <255140000.1056554086@localhost> <20030625235616.06d817bf.stubear@bouyer.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20030625235616.06d817bf.stubear@bouyer.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_sFf++/nlu2b4eRW"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200306252101.00639.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.4 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Weekly News Letter - "Where is Gentoo Linux 1.4" X-Archives-Salt: 70fcdc58-2082-484d-a725-854697aaa3bb X-Archives-Hash: e8c0954b84f62b9974b9da319cf7f395 --Boundary-02=_sFf++/nlu2b4eRW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 25 June 2003 16:56, Stuart Bouyer wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:14:46 +0000 > > Yes, I'm well aware of this (I used to be the CJK developer before > real-life rudely interrupted), and this > is my biggest concern with Gentoo at the momoent, there is no way (apart > from the snapshots Christian mentioned) to ensure that 2 instalations on > the same "release" will be the same. In an office environment where I'm > mainitaining 50+ machines this is a major concern for me. I know that > with my Mandrake or RedHat install disks all machines are running the > same versions of applications, but with Gentoo this is not true unless > all machines are installed and updated at the same time. > > Sometimes Gentoo is just a little too bleeding-edge In such a case you might want to run your own cvs ( or subversion) tree of= =20 "sanctioned ebuilds", and instead of emerge sync run cvs update on the=20 slaves. You then can copy only interesting ebuilds to the cvs tree, and onl= y=20 wanted changes. Of course this is more work, but if it should not be too ha= rd=20 to create a "custom tree" based on the ebuilds that are currently installed= =2E=20 You could put that tree, with the required distfiles on a custom gentoo=20 bootcd, which you could use to install all clients.=20 Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_sFf++/nlu2b4eRW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA++fFsbKx5DBjWFdsRApUEAJ0ZJe03DAOC52sZoK0u8rLPE9YGQwCfajwN RGQhLRqwX13lSWmssrCszVs= =35vu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_sFf++/nlu2b4eRW--