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* [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab
@ 2005-08-22  1:58 Ricardo Loureiro
  2005-08-22  2:12 ` Andrew Gaffney
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Loureiro @ 2005-08-22  1:58 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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Hi all,

As part of the final project for my graduation in Informatics
Engineering (kinda Computer Science but that's the official name),
I'm gonna develop a "distributed" portage so we can have a test
lab at our uni with Gentoo (Starting September 1st). The idea is to
have a central machine with the portage tree inside an SQL server and
hacked portage so it makes remote sql query's. Also, the machines
should not compile any software but either request binary packages
that would be custom build according to their specs somewhere else.
This would allow a central machine to request the world file of every
client, calculate the needed upgrades, compile them according to
their specs and make them available on the lan as a binary package.
And this would make at least my job a lot easier. The project is
bigger, but I just described the necessary as background to my
questions, although I'd love to discuss the whole thing with other
ppl.

Some questions:

1- Can I RSYNC_EXCLUDE everything except profiles and have an usable
system?

2- There was a portagesql effort, is it dead?

3- If I tweak a custom profile not to have dev packages such as gcc,
what kind of problems should I expect? Which packages from the base
profile MUST exist? The idea is that the client machines should not
be capable of compiling software.

4- Any ideas on how the conf files should be handled?

The final result of the project will be released to the community
(GPL or BSD, still need to think), so I'd love to ear from users
dealing with this kind of scenario, question, comments, whatever you
think I should focus on. Oh, a name for the project would be welcome
=)

Thanks in advance,
Ricardo Loureiro
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2005-08-22  1:58 [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab Ricardo Loureiro
2005-08-22  2:12 ` Andrew Gaffney
2005-08-22  3:34 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-08-22 10:05   ` Ivan Yosifov
2005-08-22 11:31   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-08-22 13:26     ` Ricardo Loureiro
2005-08-22 23:57       ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-08-22 14:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Marius Mauch
2005-08-22 15:35   ` Ricardo Loureiro
2005-08-22 16:57     ` Grobian
2005-08-22 17:49   ` Kristian Benoit
2005-08-22 20:39     ` Brian Harring
2005-08-23 16:25       ` Kristian Benoit
2005-08-23 17:22         ` Brian Harring
2005-08-23 17:27         ` Brian Harring
2005-08-23 22:58           ` Kristian Benoit
2005-08-25  0:50             ` [gentoo-dev] portage rewrite snapshot (was RFC - Gentoo on the Lab) Brian Harring
2005-08-23 16:45       ` [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab Ricardo Loureiro
2005-08-22 20:41     ` Stephen Bennett
2005-08-23 16:28       ` Kristian Benoit
2005-08-23 17:19         ` Brian Harring
2005-08-23 16:34       ` Ricardo Loureiro
2005-08-23 17:28         ` Marius Mauch

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