Hi,
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:52:07 +0400 Jason Zaman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:05:04AM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > Maybe a bit off-topic, but occasionally I need a tool to "fast
> > install Gentoo and fine-tune it later". This happens quite often on
> > a new job box, oh during visits where I'm given a workstation and
> > 3-4 hours to set it up before doing real work and so on.
> >
> > The idea is to have binary-based Gentoo ready to work on general
> > common hardware with such software out of the box as fully-fledged
> > modern gui browsers (chromium, firefox), libreoffice, xterm,
> > screen, vim, compilers, ldap support and other dev tools. Set of
> > packages may vary, but the idea is that they should work out of the
> > box due to tight constrains on initial system configuration (boss
> > should see that I'm doing my job at the end of the day).
> >
> > But afterwards I'd like to tune this setup in a usual Gentoo way:
> > configure kernel, USE flags, {C,CXX,F,FC,LD}FLAGS, select proper
> > alternatives and so on more or less accordant to the devmanual.
> >
> > Self prepared catalyst build for general ~amd64 looks appropriate
> > to the task, but they require too much maintenance effort: each
> > update is a pain and quite time consuming and I need such images
> > only once or twice per year, but still I need them!
> >
> > In the ideal world it would be nice to have such stage4 ebuilds
> > available to speed-up initial installation and configuration
> > process.
>
> Take a look at the new project Blueness is working on:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS
>
> It basically builds binpkgs for a few standard configurations so it
> sounds exactly like what you want.Thanks. Idea is really nice and when it'll be ready for real-life usage, I'll try it too. But right now it is a work-in-progress and I can't find any usable images. For now for practical issues I'll look into Sabayon like recommended by Duncan in another reply. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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