-- Adrian Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > I currently have a very old - but hardened RedHat machine as my > firewall/NAT/proxy/VPN machine. > > I've been looking at replacing it with a Gentoo machine for quite a > while; however, whats stopping me is the fact that to keep things > up-to-date you either have to have gcc on the firewall! or go the > precompiled binary package route.
You could, presumably, also use distcc and have most of the compilation work offloaded to (an)other system(s). Sure it'd take longer to compile, but probably not nearly as much longer as without it. Another option would be to build packages using another system in an alternate root and then install them on the router. The trouble with this is that as far as I can tell, emerge doesn't give the option to build a package without installing it. Perhaps it would work to simply nfs-mount (using nosquashroot, which probably isn't a big deal if that option's only available to a single IP) the entire router's filesystem and emerge using that root from the server. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
