oh, and it surely would be usefull for single gentoo boxes too, as many users already requested things like auto-update for configs, rollback and ptree in a db. i guess you should work closely with the gentoo-devs as this would enhance portage as a whole.
Chris wrote: >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
