В Пт, 19/01/2018 в 01:30 +0300, Alexander Tsoy пишет:
> В Чт, 18/01/2018 в 06:46 -0500, Anthony G. Basile пишет:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I'm trying to design an update system for many identical Gentoo
> > systems.
> >  Using a binhost is obvious, but there are still problems with this
> > approach.
> > 
> > Unless there's some magic I don't know about (and this is why I'm
> > sending this email) each machine still needs to have the portage
> > tree
> > installed locally (1.5 GB) or somehow mounted by a network
> > filesystem
> > (which is not practical if the machines are not on a local
> > network).
> > Furthermore, each machine would have to run emerge locally to do
> > the
> > calculation of what packages need updating.
> 
> AFAIK each machine only needs "profiles" and "eclass" directories and
> not the full repo. eclass dir is needed because of the check below in
> ebuild.sh:
> 
> 
> inherit()
> ...
>     [[ -z ${location} ]] && die "${1}.eclass could not be found by
> inherit()"
> 
> And this check actually should be skipped for binary packages. They
> are
> already contain full environment.

Oops. Forget the last part about inherit(). You need only profiles dir.
I experimented on a host with local overlay thus I got inherit
errors. :)

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