On 01/23/2017 04:23 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
Hi, everyone.
I've written a short proposal that aims to provide basic infrastructure
for defining mix-in profiles in Gentoo. I've tried to keep it simple,
and backwards compatible. The main goal is to be able to start defining
some mix-ins without having to reinvent the whole profile tree.
Most important points:
1. Mix-ins are applied on top of base profile (which works the same as
before),
2. Mix-ins are supported via 'eselect profile'
replacing /etc/portage/make.profile symlink with a directory, without
need for Portage patching (this is how Funtoo does it),
3. Most important mix-ins are used to construct base profiles which
provides both backwards compatibility and proper targets for repoman
(to avoid having to check all possible mix-in combinations).
Complete text:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Mix-ins
Please review.
On 01/23/2017 04:30 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I've written a short proposal that aims to provide basic infrastructure
> for defining mix-in profiles in Gentoo. I've tried to keep it simple,
> and backwards compatible. The main goal is to be able to start defining
> some mix-ins without having to reinvent the whole profile tree.
>
> Most important points:
>
> 1. Mix-ins are applied on top of base profile (which works the same as
> before),
>
> 2. Mix-ins are supported via 'eselect profile'
> replacing /etc/portage/make.profile symlink with a directory, without
> need for Portage patching (this is how Funtoo does it),
>
> 3. Most important mix-ins are used to construct base profiles which
> provides both backwards compatibility and proper targets for repoman
> (to avoid having to check all possible mix-in combinations).
>
> Complete text:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Mix-ins
>
> Please review.
>
Hello Michal,
Excellent work. My cluster development work is (minimal and embedded
gentoo) systems that are dynamically able to coalesce into various
cluster configurations, very similar to how 'unikernels' work. [1]
I'm curious how 'mix-in' profiles might be used to build from bare-metal
up a minimized gentoo cluster, just a skeleton approach using mix-in
profiles?
[1] http://unikernel.org/
