Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] cross install

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] cross install
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:45:38 -0700

Quoting Lubomir Blaha <tritol AT trilogic.cz>:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:57:57PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
What you might want to do is just use distcc on the laptop and
desktop. Have the laptop send all of it's compilation to the desktop
and do none of it's own, then Sorcer will use your desktop to compile
the packages and then install on the laptop. Alternatively you could
have both your machines use the same cache files from installed spells,
but then you'll have to compile for the lowest machine (your 486 laptop)
and then have /var/cache/sorcery NFS (or any other networked filesystem)
mounted on the laptop from the desktop. Once you compile a package on
the desktop it'll also be available for resurrection on the laptop.
Personally I'd go with the distcc route so that your desktop and
laptop can have different options for the packages (since you may not
want all the options on your laptop (e.g. KDE) that you do on the
desktop).

Distcc is interesting idea. I already know it exist but didn't know how
it works. Now I'm little smarter than yesterday, thanks :).

But distcc brings some other problems. The laptop have no network device
so I should "emulate" net via paralel or serial port (is it possible?).
There is no cdrom too, so another thing to solve (to install basic set
of spells).

Sync via /var/cache/sorcery is possible (I already done it with another
installation) but I don't want this. The diferencies between both systems
are too big.

I don't need "full featured" SM system on laptop. My idea is install
only few spells to bring the hw up (kernel, init, shell, vim, directfb
etc) and still have way to upgrade this spells when new versions will
be avaiable. Seems this requires some kind of chrooted enviroment on
desktop. Or am I wrong?

Sounds like most of your difficulty will be in getting files (whether
source or pre-compiled binary) to your laptop. Perhaps the best option
would be to setup a chroot on your desktop to compile for i486 and then
just copy the chroot's /var/cache/sorcery to the laptop (somehow).

-sandalle

--
Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric at sandall.us PGP: 0xA8EFDD61 | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @
WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page