From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E71rW-0003aJ-9k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:16:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M2FJop002308; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:15:19 GMT Received: from ryoko.agaffney.org (ppp-70-245-236-179.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [70.245.236.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7M2DdEV019123 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:13:39 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.10] (kagome [192.168.0.10]) by ryoko.agaffney.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B411E00FE for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:10:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <43093497.4050606@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:12:39 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050814) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab References: <20050822025840.6bb9bdb9@acme.rjlouro.org> In-Reply-To: <20050822025840.6bb9bdb9@acme.rjlouro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: feb562d8-f005-4b56-9461-ead5b9e743a4 X-Archives-Hash: 45864a738aaba55d71ee9417b20ad783 Ricardo Loureiro wrote: > Some questions: > > 1- Can I RSYNC_EXCLUDE everything except profiles and have an usable > system? Depending on exactly how you're doing this, you'll probably want to keep eclasses/ as well. > 2- There was a portagesql effort, is it dead? Yes. It has been for a while, afaik. > 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. You'll probably run into an ebuild somewhere that directly depends on gcc and/or related dev packages (very likely one of the leftover 'system' packages). > 4- Any ideas on how the conf files should be handled? Nope :) -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list