Hi guys, I'm in a dilemma whether to develop a commercial network product (basically a glorified firewall with fancy features) with Gentoo or Debian.
The problem is this... updates. While I could build a great Gentoo setup in my sleep for this, I'm not sure as to how to run the update procedure. Seeing as the device would not be suited for compilation (I don't want to waste clock cycles compiling updates) then I'd have to go the GRP and binary route. While this is perfectly feasible in Gentoo, the emerge sync and portage overlay is occluding my understanding. I can't get it figured out in my head the way I'd want to do it... The main points are; * Has to be binary based - all boxes will be same architecture (athlon-xp -- sempron basically) * Has to have a seperate update, not linked to the main portage tree, so that I can test packages and mark them stable BEFORE they go into the tree for emerge sync to pick up. * Has to support non-portage based binaries too (Frox being an example, it's got an ebuild, but not in portage, but could build the binary) With Debian I could setup the box easily and use apt-get with my own sources.list pointing to my server for updates. However I wouldn't have the flexibility of USE="-*" (I don't think) and packages would generally be a little behind Gentoo (as I understand it) Has anyone evert tried similar or have any thoughts on this? Any help GREATLY appreciated - as always! Joel -- Joel Merrick
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