Announcing Gentoomuch, a software pipeline for Gentoo

[ColinGilbert]

Hi everyone,


I am announcing the public release of my most recent project, Gentoomuch.

It uses Docker to maintain immutable Gentoo builder images that create custom stage4s that you can define.

I wanted to solve configuration drift and explore different ways of using Gentoo.

Here is the link to the project repository on GitHub: https://www.github.com/ColinGilbert/gentoomuch.


Happy New Year!
Colin

[pingtoo]

Thank you very much for sharing!!

I am currently doing exactly like your project except I don't use python because I am not python coder. I too use docker, except I use docker in docker. because I have several steps prior to start catalyst because I want to setup ZRAM/NBD/LVS/MOUNT in order to reduce I/O to my SD card.

I have yet to go through your repository so forgive me if you already mention it somewhere in there.

Questions,

• Do you include building of the docker image as build process?
  
• Do you consider import Portage tree into the build image? So it is fixed to one specific point in time.
  
• Do you use Custom Sets concept? I want my build process automatically generate a /etc/portage/sets/stage4, that way I have reference and possibly reuse for later rebuild.

[ColinGilbert]

Yes I build the docker image as part of the build process.
The Portage tree is synced into a volume defined by docker-compose.
Yes the tool uses package sets but I also don't force them upon the user.

[sam_]

I haven't had a chance to look at the project, but thank you for sharing, and I've added it to my list of resources for deploying Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sam/Useful_scripts#Deploying_Gentoo.

[zen_desu]

[ColinGilbert]

[ColinGilbert]