I've only used portage as a user, but I love it. If someone can make this work, that would be great!
On Thu, August 11, 2005 2:46 pm, Joe Baker said: > I'm thinking of creating a chroot environment on a SuSE box for Gentoo so > I can use Gentoo's amazing build environment to manage software packages > on the box (the DHCP issue on SuSE 9.3-x86_64 issue I just wrote about). > Come to think of it we should consider using Portage for the LTSP > environment too. It would make porting to different architectures much > easier as well as adding things like Perl and MySQL and other various > local apps (Gentoo has loads of build scripts for them and it's relatively > painless to modify the build scripts) > > A Howto for implementing Portage in a CHROOT environment on RedHat: > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A//kapcoweb.com/p/static/docs/jc-gentoo-howto/jc-gentoo-howto.html&ei=7Zr7QrjqI57sYOa1kOsM > > Google Cached version of the site: > http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:RJG76jZts88J:kapcoweb.com/p/static/docs/jc-gentoo-howto/jc-gentoo-howto.html+gentoo+redhat+chroot&hl=en&client=opera > > I've spent significant time trying to learn the RPM internals, but in the > short time I've studied portage I've been able to create certian upgrades > to ebuild/"recipies" to perform version bumps of programs. So I'd say > it's easy to use and would fit the bill in a wonderful way for > accellerating LTSP's future at breakneck speed. > > -Joe Baker -Michael George Ideal Solution, LLC ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
