Kurt, On 14/01/2005, at 9:19 AM, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
> So the questions are: > > * Has any group done this before and what lessons are > you willing to share? > * How would you go about this if you had the freedom > to do it anyway you want? > * If you kept a network fink tree how would you export > it to machines? Appleshare? NFS? AFS? SMB :) What > issues are likely to crop up... e.g. lots of stale > mounts with NFS? > * What about those writable directories? If you have > an apache server from fink, it wants to write into > /finkdir/var... If you did NFS, you would probably > want to do a readonly export right? > * I know that all the binaries are supposed to be the > same across platforms, but would a big roll out > effectively require separate G5 and G4 trees > (supporting the old G3's around here would not be > worth it) > * Would you just have machines periodically rsync in > the debs and list of packages from a machine and have > only local fink installs? > * What else does this bring to mind? I always build my fink from scratch into /opt/fink (let's not get into that old argument again!), and I have to say, I see remarkably few issues. The only major flaw I can think of (and this is unverified) is that prebinding can be a tricky beast. I don't know if anyone has verified this elsewhere, but I have seen kernel panics after swapping out components that have been prebound (ie. X11, or even libSystem - ie. system updates) for newer binary-compatible versions that aren't prebound (or have had their prebound location changed). Obviously normal users wouldn't usually be doing this, but it would be something I'd like to hear the gurus here comment on... Could be off base - otherwise, I think it's great that someone is going to put fink to this heavy use - let the users know about the official bug tracker/feature request pages at sourceforge - we could get some really good data from this! -Tony ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
