Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: > On 4/26/06, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I really want is to make the process of maintaining Gentoo boxes >> over the long term easier (IOW: less time-consuming) than is now true, >> by adding some functionality that AFAICT does not now exist which would >> allow me to automate some things, turn off automation of other things, >> and as the sysadmin, have control over what those things should be. In >> my mind at least, the central theme in Gentoo of choice dovetails nicely >> with what I'm trying to describe here: control and choice that is highly >> fine-tunable by the owner of the box in regards to package upgrades. > > Have a look at GLCU (http://www.panhorst.com/glcu/). Might not be the > perfect solution for your needs but it might help. Tools like this > one, /etc/portage and a private overlay for testing and/or pinning > would be pretty usefull for you right now. Might want to check GLEP 19 > IIRC for the enterprise tree idea.
Thanks very kindly for your reply and pointer, Jean-Francois! -Kevin -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
