this sounds like a very great project, i hope you get it done fully, as i surely would have use for it (got a whole bunch of gentoo-boxes, with different archs)
plz keep us informed and also put your longer doc online, as i'm not scared to read some 50 pages about an interesting project like this :) greets, Chris Ricardo Loureiro wrote: > Hi, > > I'm finishing my masters and as final project I decided to make a > "portage" that would work well on a network environment, in this case > a software development lab. My idea is to put portage on a database > and create tools that would allow clients to request packages to a > central machine that would calculate dependencies, compile them and > install on the client. This is the quick-and-dirty short description, > it's more complex than that =) > > First i'd like to know the status of the Gentoo-Server Project, since > it's not updated since July 2003. > > Second, I wrote a quick draft of what i'm planning to do for my > project and would like some feedback since it may be useful to > gentoo-server. The doc is available at > http://student.dei.uc.pt/~rjlouro/gentoo-server.pdf > > Please note it's quite simple cause I didn't want to bore ppl, i've > already wrote much more than that for my report and will be happy to > provide all info needed, but I don't want to scare ppl with very long > stuff, if you feel this can be usefull to gentoo great, i'd love to > give all of it back. > > Regards, > Ricardo Loureiro > -- > http://pgp.dei.uc.pt:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6B7C0EC0 -- [email protected] mailing list
