Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups

[Ramon van Alteren <ramon@vanalteren.nl>]

Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Ramon van Alteren wrote:
>> Well, basically he's right. Catalyst is a build tool that wraps all 
>> the stuff you need to do when building packages in a chroot, with 
>> some additional features
>> You don't need it.... it just saves time and a lot of work writing 
>> your own scripts to manage the environment, and it's semi-maintained.
>
> You have an odd definition of "maintained". Chris (catalyst lead) and 
> I (general code monkey) are actively working on catalyst. We just 
> don't care much about features that don't directly benefit release 
> building, since that's what catalyst's primary function is. If someone 
> asks for a feature that doesn't affect building releases and submits 
> code, we're very likely to throw it in.
Please, that's not what I meant, accept my apologies if that's what came 
across.

What I meant with semi-maintained is that it is maintained as an 
internal tool for building gentoo-releases and not as a general 
system-images buildtool.
Reading it again I should have said that more clearly, sorry.

Ramon

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