From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10326 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 23:14:55 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Nov 2004 23:14:55 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYYFr-0004a5-JL for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:14:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 3218 invoked by uid 89); 28 Nov 2004 23:14:55 +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 12013 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 23:14:54 +0000 Message-ID: <41AA5017.8050402@scms.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:24:23 +1300 From: Dax Bunce User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <41AA36A1.5010801@scms.waikato.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked.... X-Archives-Salt: ef70424a-cce8-4e88-b8d2-9b63b2ca4eed X-Archives-Hash: 768ce20306d09e7df4d377b317e1e922 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: 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 wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >You could help with the gentoo-installer project, if you like writing >installers. > >Dax Bunce: you can just tell your installer to >echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > > It looks like we will have to at this point! Cheers. >That should be possible on an automated install :) > > >Stefan > >-- >gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list