Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

[Grobian <grobian@gentoo.org>]

Ricardo Loureiro wrote:
> Usable in the way that the client machines should be able to use
> portage, except it's the hacked (or new package) version that should
> do everything from the SQL server. For example, a emerge package
> would behave in 2 possible ways;1- calculate it's dependencies from
> the portage tree on the SQL server and request the binary packages,
> 2- Request the package and the server would calculate dependencies
> and get the binary done. I'm more keen on the second since it takes
> away processor time from the clients, but that involves sending
> sensitive information such as world files and make.conf over the
> network.

Sounds like in your setup you would like to keep a profile of the client 
on the server, so you don't have to send over that information, because 
it is already in the DBMS.  That also allows you to update 
'push-driven', because the server can easily tell which clients have 
packages that are out of date.


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Fabian Groffen
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