Re: [gentoo-embedded] tzdata & friends

[Sven Rebhan <odinshorse@googlemail.com>]

2010/6/11 Marcus Priesch <marcus@priesch.priv.at>:
> when i do it this way - syncing portage tree and updating selectively -
> i am not able to reproduce the entire build ... which - for me - is a no
> go ...

Well, if you want to keep versions stable for years you might want to
maintain an own portage tree and mount this via e.g. NFS on the
clients. To reproduce those builds you just need also to save the
versions of your build and do

for p in $(cat mypackagelist); do emerge =$p; done

However, you need to make sure that all source tarballs are avail
for years, which might be a problem as well. Furthermore, newer
versions of packages you _need_ to update (like your tzdata)
will probably require newer dependencies as well...

> thats why i wanted to use ubuntu lts - it's maintained with bug fixes
> for five years and doesnt change versions ... but as all of you might
> agree ... it's a no-go for other reasons ;)

I really think keeping versions stable for years and backporting fixes
is a lot of work and you need to make sure you have the resources
to maintain an own portage tree and backports of important fixes.


Sven