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

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

Also, there is a script to manage a binary package repository, explained 
here:
<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34384>
Cheers

Dax Bunce wrote:

> 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:
>>  
>>
>>> 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
>>
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