On Tuesday 23 September 2008 23:16:12 Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > if you are using nfs you could also put a 'central' make.conf there and > > have the servers symlink to it. This way you only have to edit it once. > > The problem with that is that I may not want al the servers to have al > of the servers running the same make.conf :) > > Perhaps servers in a year or two will have never processors that I want > to take advantage of or I may want some use flags active on some > servers, while still haveing the general set that apply to them > all....With a profile I would have the flexibilty to do that, with a > symlinced make file, I don't.
So your original idea makes sense: 1. put the things that stay the same in a profile 2. Put the things that change in each machine's make.conf or world -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
