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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HqqXd-0006Qo-CG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 13:06:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4ND5fu4027373; Wed, 23 May 2007 13:05:41 GMT Received: from router.forgottenland.net (cust.92.104.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.92.104]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4ND3gg8024991 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 13:03:42 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.240] (82-204-44-50.dsl.bbeyond.nl [82.204.44.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by router.forgottenland.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8163F774 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:03:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46543BA9.1000304@vanalteren.nl> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:03:37 +0200 From: Ramon van Alteren User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070507) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups References: <4650937E.80301@spamcop.net> <4652270A.7020906@vanalteren.nl> <4653203B.5020700@spamcop.net> <4653EF4B.4090800@vanalteren.nl> <46543382.1060707@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <46543382.1060707@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f172a46-3b57-4d4e-aa4c-9426a9e7f7c7 X-Archives-Hash: cbf26ce1d0686894248e86b678ac051c 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 -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list