1) emerge gentoolkit qpkg does that
Note, that in debian, apt-* doesn't show what packages are installed, you need to query dpkg. Also, apt-* are front-ends to dpkg and its many tools. emerge info in gentoo currently reports Portage configuration information. 2) Gentoo network installation (PXE) HOWTO http://www.menteb.org/docs.php?doc=pxe I don't have enough extra boxes laying around to try out the network install, but I have faith in the author of that how to that it works :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 4:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement > > > Some suggestions: > > 1. emerge is missing one key function -- I say key, because we can't > consider deploying Gentoo as the OS of choice for x86 > servers unless > it has this feature: the ability to see what ebuilds were installed > on the system and what version they are. > > Package management is extremely important to us in the server arena > because it represents the bulk of our long-term > maintenance for both > by hand and with our extensive automated tools which > figures out what > stuff to install based on what currently is installed. > Currently, the > argument is to use Debian instead of Gentoo because of missing bits > related to package management such as this. I suck at coding or I'd > contribute something, but I could take a shot at it. > > Perhaps consider a command such as 'emerge info' to list one-liners > listing all installed ebuilds and their versions? And 'emerge info > <specific ebuild>' to view info for a specific ebuild. And > some sort > of wildcard support such as 'emerge info foo*' to return info about > all installed ebuilds matching the wildcard pattern. > > For the most part, I think you've already got code in > emerge to figure > out what ebuilds are installed and at what version... > could adapt it > to also be used for an 'emerge info' function. > > 2. The only other thing we're missing with Gentoo is a > network boot/install > server -- we already have AIX's NIM, Solaris's Jumpstart, RedHat's > KickStart. Even Windows and MacOS has something. :) With > the number of > sites and servers we run, this is a crucial bit of functionality. > > Since that functionality is generally generic -- support tftp, etc. > ...it sounds theoretically simple to support this one way > or another. > I wonder if RedHat's KickStart stuff could be ported to Gentoo? I > hesitate to suggest this, but I'm also hesitant to suggest > something > that would chew up developers' time by doing something > from scratch. > > Gentoo's got a firm hold on the desktop... and getting > there with the > hardened project for the high security stuff... but could > get a bigger > chunk of the servers. > > -Dan > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
