Re: [gentoo-user] Binary package cruncher?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 15 November 2008 19:40:50 Simon wrote:
>    This is not super efficient, but the way I've thought it, should be
> simple to do... a simple gentoo hack so to speak.  However, I'm wondering
> if anybody has suggestion for better ways to do this and if you could give
> me pointers to such projects.  Also keep in mind that I really really want
> to update ALL my PCs with a single `emerge -uDN world` on the host, then
> copy new pkgs (using rsync or other) to the PCs and do an `emerge -k -uDN
> world` on them.  Nothing more.  (So unless your suggestion is simpler than
> my current (fully installed) setup, please tell me!)

I would build all that stuff in a chroot. The logic is that the your buildhost 
system is not quite the same thing as the machine hosting the buildhost.

One thing you cannot get away from is that to build say X for your slow 
hardware, it has to be done on a machine that has all X's build dependencies 
fully installed and working. You might not want that on your production 
server. Some fancy tricks with bind-mounts into the chroot would let you 
share common stuff. Or, you could simply buy a bit more storage if you are 
running out. It's cheap enough and if you've gone to this much trouble 
already, some more storage would be minor

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