I have to agree with everyone else. Especially if you're trying to provide a foundation for a number of people, building on top of a variety of moving targets, i.e. peoples' OSs, will be a nightmare.
drobbins says he's going to rewrite Metro in the next few months. Once he does, I might be interested in working on some scripts for setting up prefix instances. Peter On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jeremy Olexa <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:50:20 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Third hint: >> Having that many different systems and users feels like becoming a >> maintenance nightmare when trying to use as much as possible >> packages from the host system. > > Hello, > I would even go one step farther and say it is VERY difficult to provide > such a setup with host tools. For example, can one guarantee that every > host that someone uses has bash-3.2 or greater? Half of my systems don't. > So, I would argue that you should have more tools in the target prefix > rather than less from a supportability standpoint (where support is coming > from you ;) ). It goes without saying that the Gentoo Prefix team is never > able to support this due to all the variables. > > With that being said, please first build up a Gentoo Prefix environment > like it was intended and then try to replicate it with host tools. You will > need the experience of knowing how it is suppose to work first and > foremost. > > Good luck, > Jeremy > >
