Proposal, create snapshots of portage as squashfs iso, to be used in place
of /usr/portage directory.
prior art: see #1
Already working here: one central server which keep the portage full tree
and that after a sync create portage.sqsh a squashfs 4.0 iso.
Advantages are mainly:
- cleaner root
I'm doing more or less the same here for a few years already, works
pretty well. I think others are as well.
Doing the sync only on one system (and applying patches to the tree
where needed) and then locally copying the image to systems.
Big advantage I see is more efficient access to portage
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:17:55PM +0200, Francesco R wrote:
Proposal, create snapshots of portage as squashfs iso, to be used in
place of /usr/portage directory.
To all of these suggestions, I'd like to point out that if you're
willing to pay the same cost in administration (maintaining a
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.orgwrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:17:55PM +0200, Francesco R wrote:
Proposal, create snapshots of portage as squashfs iso, to be used in
place of /usr/portage directory.
To all of these suggestions, I'd like to point out
