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

[Ronan Mullally <ronan@iol.ie>]

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On Mon, 21 May 2007, Petteri Räty wrote:

> > That's what I figured.  Okay, last question - how do I stop emerge trying
> > to update the compiler-less systems to include development tools like gcc?
> > I presume tweaking the profile is the way to do it.  Is there a stock
> > profile that already has these excluded?
>
> I think /etc/portage/profile/package.provided could work.

It looks like it might, but you've got to specify packages with version
numbers.  I could see lots of fun and games when newer versions are added
to portage or called as dependancies.  Keeping this file up to date with
the version numbers required would make the process rather tiresome.

That said, it's something that could probably be scripted (run a dummy
emerge on the portage tree and parse the output for any new installs of
gcc, binutils, etc), and if something did slip through, the corresponding
binaries shouldn't be on the binhost.


-Ronan