From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KkHMt-0001SH-Mc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:56:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5ED20E075F; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.hdrinc.com (omac-inexhts01.hdrinc.com [64.253.166.139]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472C3E075F for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMAC-INEXMBX01.intranet.hdr ([10.4.8.21]) by omac-inexhts01.intranet.hdr ([10.4.8.9]) with mapi; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:56:45 -0500 From: "Spahn, Daniel" To: "gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org" Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:56:45 -0500 Subject: RE: [gentoo-server] Questions about Server Thread-Topic: [gentoo-server] Questions about Server Thread-Index: AckiBq07vV8TRldZQ2qDGsFyvWVD/wAIqFgg Message-ID: References: <20080924190642.T60035@shell.bway.net> <48E08665.9040100@vanalteren.nl> In-Reply-To: <48E08665.9040100@vanalteren.nl> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 51ec0bd6-dc18-4cea-b568-03580344fceb X-Archives-Hash: 85562b8c1ac6a7f8a356f45c103a620d Is this project about how to configure Gentoo as a server OS, or is it abou= t creating a branch of Gentoo dedicated to being a server? In either case, = I have some suggestions... One of my pet peeves about emerging for a server-grade platform is that the= re is no way to truly separate the build/install process that is easy to tr= ack. I have read about the buildpkg and buildpkgonly options, but I don't l= ike them because they are not geared toward a sys admin that has several ma= chines that may need different packages emerged. In my ideal world, the eme= rge function could be run with a command switch, which would cause it to ru= n the full emerge without installing, then with a simple command, list all = the built packages that need to be 'installed'--- much like etc-update. Bef= ore I bring up any more suggestions, I would like to know more about the ge= ntoo-server project's angle. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Dan Computer Systems Manager