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

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>]

Ramon van Alteren wrote:
> 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.

That's *very* different from "semi-maintained" :)

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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