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
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