Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Dax Bunce <dax@scms.waikato.ac.nz>]

Hi,
We do use binary packages, but some things like kernel modules are 
better created on the fly - for example when we roll out a new kernel 
and the client reboots on the new kernel it will build the appropriate 
display modules. This can be done using binary packages, but creates 
more work as new binary packages have to be created every time the 
kernel is upgraded.

We have documented the initial setup of our installer, but havent had 
time to document the maintenance side of it. It will be posted up when 
we finish the docs.

The docs that exist so far are here:
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~baz/binpkgmain/>
This goes as far as explaining the installation process only.

Cheers
Dax

Stefan Schweizer wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:07:53 +0100, Sven Köhler <skoehler@upb.de> wrote:
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>>What kind of automated installer is this? I thought about writing one
>>myself, but that might not be necessary if there is one already that i
>>haven't found yet.
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>You could help with the gentoo-installer project, if you like writing
>installers.
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>Dax Bunce: you can just tell your installer to 
>echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
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It looks like we will have to at this point! Cheers.

>That should be possible on an automated install :)
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>Stefan
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