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 1HqC0i-0003pU-CF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:49:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4LHmSfn020463; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:48:28 GMT Received: from mail.4L.ie (mail.4L.ie [193.27.1.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4LHk87u017733 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:46:09 GMT Received: from oook.4L.ie (host86-140-171-94.range86-140.btcentralplus.com [86.140.171.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "oook.4L.ie", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by mail.4L.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4F617828 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 18:46:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from office.4L (office.4L [192.168.1.106]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by oook.4L.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 952642F4E for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 18:46:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 18:46:07 +0100 (BST) From: Ronan Mullally X-X-Sender: ronan@office.4L To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups In-Reply-To: <4651D845.3080008@saunalahti.fi> Message-ID: References: <4650937E.80301@spamcop.net> <4650BCC7.60909@vanalteren.nl> <246510DE-93FF-46CD-AF10-70C53C8442A7@rogers.com> <4651C876.2@routedtechnologies.com> <4651D845.3080008@saunalahti.fi> 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 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323328-1560484421-1179769567=:9909" X-Archives-Salt: abd45523-f22f-4e2d-8592-1892cb2be6ff X-Archives-Hash: 8ed5345e56a842eed3612e156ec46b84 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-1560484421-1179769567=:9909 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Mon, 21 May 2007, Petteri R=E4ty wrote: > > That's what I figured. Okay, last question - how do I stop emerge tryi= ng > > to update the compiler-less systems to include development tools like g= cc? > > 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 --8323328-1560484421-1179769567=:9909-- -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list