Hi Karl, On Mon, 21 May 2007, Karl Holz wrote:
> >Is there a way to run gentoo without a portage tree on each box? > > yes, if you setup a build system, using a stage3 tarball, and build your > system into a directory. Portage will only be under your /usr/portage and not > into the system image you're building. the good thing about using a Stage3 > tarball is you can build you system on any linux system, build your system > image, tarball the image, deploy and install grub on x86, yaboot on Mac PPC, > silo on Sparc64. How are updates handled? "emerge -uD <pkg|world>" isn't going to work without a portage tree, so I presume I'd need to tell each server which packages need to be updated with "emerge <pkg1> <pkg2> ... <pkgn>" to have it download them from the binhost? -Ronan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
