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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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

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