Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Northrup
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >Thierry Carrez wrote: > > > >>Hi folks, >> >>I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop >>deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of). >> >>As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but >>quickly ran into scaling pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-22 Thread Mike Doty
Thierry Carrez wrote: Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: I think most of the assumptions that you're making involve giving your user population root access. Don't ?? The assumptions I am making are clearly not involving giving a user population root access. I just point to the lack of tools to maint

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Thierry Carrez wrote: >Hi folks, > >I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop >deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of). > >As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but >quickly ran into scaling problems and the lack of tools to help. > >There

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-22 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Carrez wrote: > Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > > >>I think most of the assumptions that you're making involve giving your >>user population root access. >>Don't > > > ?? > The assumptions I am making are clearly not involving giving a user > p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-22 Thread Thierry Carrez
Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > I think most of the assumptions that you're making involve giving your > user population root access. > Don't ?? The assumptions I am making are clearly not involving giving a user population root access. I just point to the lack of tools to maintain semi-frozen trees

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-21 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:35:52PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > I don't say that it cannot be done, and I don't ask what's the best way > to do it. I just ask *if* we should try to provide higher-level tools > (and/or doc) to help in doing so. It's not obvious (especially for > non-developers) ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-21 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
Thierry Carrez wrote: >Hi folks, > >I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop >deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of). > >As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but >quickly ran into scaling problems and the lack of tools to help. > >There

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-21 Thread Thierry Carrez
Alec Warner wrote: >> There is no obvious way to freeze a Portage tree (or to design a >> specific profile) for testing on a golden workstation, to build a set of >> update packages (ServicePack) and push it to the workstations, or to >> have centralized accountability of what's installed where. T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-21 Thread Alec Warner
Thierry Carrez wrote: Hi folks, I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of). As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but quickly ran into scaling problems and the lack of tools to help. There is no o

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-21 Thread Thierry Carrez
Hi folks, I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of). As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but quickly ran into scaling problems and the lack of tools to help. There is no obvious way to freeze a P