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. [...] Good luck ;-) > First i'd like to know the status of the Gentoo-Server Project, since > it's not updated since July 2003. Don't think it's very healty > > 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 > [...] offering my 0.02 € ...
PortageDB --------- - add the possibility to specify CFLAGS (or environment in general) for a single package or class of packages "solar" gentoo dev. may be a good resource speaking of this - keep possible to hook the function (pkg_setup, src_unpack ...) more in depth on gentoo-portage mail list archives - some lurking on the following may gave other good ideas: o http://dev.croup.de/proj/eix/wiki/IndexFileLayout eix storage format o http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~amb/CM30076/projects.bho/2004-5/SimonMaynard-2004-5.pdf in deep analisys of portage and other package manager (not readed it all) o http://sourceforge.net/projects/portage-c/ dead attempt to port portage to c with some good ideas - just in case the choice of the database is MySQL count on my full support ;-) Econf ----- dark and dangerous land, noone is happy here and never will be. There are config files that an administrator don't care about, the major part. There are config files that an administrator *really* don't want to be updated without see the differences. ^^^ I'm referring also to the simply # comments So the only suggestion here is keep dispatch-conf, with no more that two enhancments: - May it smart enough to recognize identical changes on more clients only the first need to be human accepted - make possible to mark a specific file for auto-update (/etc/services fex), only the first time the human meet that one it will be bothered. Portage-server-tools -------------------- ehm nothing here. Also I'm interested in the database creation, is it possible to have a preview ? -- [email protected] mailing list
