On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > I need to deploy a (gentoo) server, on an isolated, remote network, > with just a few custom applications. However, to periodically > update the gentoo distro, I want to build a second (congruent) > system, that can be physically swapped for update, or in the > event of failure (brain-dead, I know but for now, that's a > hard constraint).
I have one question before I describe a few approaches that came to mind: Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated one)? As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE flags (that would not change the overall behaviour of what is already there), emerge a lot of new packages, and basically arrive at what you have on the bloated machine? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
