Re: [sabayon] Sabayon for RHEL 4

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak rogers com>]

On Tue, 2005-20-12 at 03:58 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   I can confirm, I had to recompile and upgrade a lot of the Gnome stack 
> to work on Sabayon in my RHEL4 workstation, even Glib needed to be updated
> with a later release, so no this is really not possible with a pristine,
> supported RHEL4. The development was really targetting Fedora Core 4, and
> Mark had to fix for example Gtk python bindings to get sabayon to work.
> The gamin-python package is also not available until RHEL4-U2.

That's a shame.  I have a client running a RHEL 4/Thinstation thin
client system for about 20 users.  Sabayon would be a great way to
create and maintain profiles for them.

> > However, its probably possible to run sabayon-apply on RHEL4 machines,
> > so you might be able to actually push out settings to RHEL4 machines
> > even if you can't edit on them. (Dunno if this helps you though.)
> 
>   I think that is possible, but I can't remember precisely, Mark certainly
> knows. Well you can try it, sabayon-apply doesn't have much dependancies.

I'll give it a shot, and let you know how it goes

I'm a little confused as to how I'm supposed to create profiles on, say
Fedora Core 4, and then push them out onto a RHEL 4 server.  I've read
that gconf is supposed to be backwards and forwards compatible (in as
much as new keys won't break apps on systems running older versions of
gconf), but I don't know if that's truly the case.

How does one actually use sabayon-apply?  There's no man page, and I
haven't found any documentation.  I guessing I'm supposed to specify the
profile and the user I want the profile applied to, so:

sabayon-apply profile user

Is that right, or am I completely off?

Although I've created profiles with Sabayon, I haven't actually tried
applying them, so I'm a little lost.

One last thing: I see that you copied the sabayon list when you replied.
I, however, haven't seen any new messages posted to it.  Is the list
still up?

Thanks,

Ranbir

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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Systems Aligned Inc.
www.systemsaligned.com