From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N34Nv-0007WW-Eb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F185E094E; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F7FE094E for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so510404ewy.34 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=/RtlT9ntflRMdDL/VXx4YTTvZhQTkjtNZcKc79FkF5E=; b=Vd7KA+15c2aFTRh6K+hkxGLX5M7QLw7h43ZIOWtFcTyY687ZPyHX0A3TfYPf75KC2P Ka6GLmTnzOUMQuX3Gbgm5Y4g5pOwZztgzvD+aEG3MWMYLb0SZPwCGN1Fr/pOmjQnb/Z7 hkZUwZKofd63Ob5TNARNLDD+lM7A7Rg0JjIsc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=VuErNfouPcXJ/MUfhGx5AW5pX9xwWldCfzNm39/pukn/qhUD0cfgY2NkWrf9PCSAUo THJo6ekZpsdJ16iP3kiSCi6/nT1qHLrXhO0JGIWPtCCSsGWb0Fcu0nCWrcs99zZoRzl9 xHEBOLGc2r63AwDj9AKAZniqikdbxHOlVFuOo= Received: by 10.211.155.19 with SMTP id h19mr324113ebo.48.1256720400581; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm2284653eyg.1.2009.10.28.01.59.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:59:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4 upgrading Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:58:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910280024.30685.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910281058.56624.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3e24d48f-239c-4f2b-a497-6123b53af9ce X-Archives-Hash: 301b91edcdc5aa6f6b6420daa4e16554 On Wednesday 28 October 2009 02:28:43 James wrote: > PS, if one of you really smart guys figures out mass/parallel > upgrades, then I'd use that, even set up my own server > to keep it efficient. I'm not smart enough (not enough time > at current mental aptitude) to set all of that up, unless > somebody else does the foundational work..... > > But I very much like the concept. Upgrade a master system. > Test it. Then push your own binaries/files to the other systems > you manage. Somebody figures that out, i.e. works out the bugs, > Gentoo is going mainstream...... If someone did that, they could > just put their admin scripts and settings in an ebuild. Then users > could just emerge that ebuild and set the list of installed packages. > VERY COOL. > All that already exists and is fully supported by portage. Build your packages on one central machine and pull them from the workstations. "man emerge" and search for BINHOST. The only catch is to define the various settings (USE, CHOST, CFLAGS) to something compatible with all your machines. This is not a big deal, it's the kind of decisions a binary distro must make and those work fine -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com