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Folks -- |
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Eric Sammer (esammer) has been working hard on an automated installer for |
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the gentoo-server project. As Eric says in the docs[1], "The idea is to |
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make building and installing Gentoo servers fast, predictable, and |
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unattended in larger environments." |
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GSDS supports the idea of machine profiles, such as 'web', 'ftp', 'file', |
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etc. You can define your own profiles to suit your needs. Profiles are |
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simple xml documents that store information such as stage tarballs that |
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should be used, USE variables, CFLAGS, etc. |
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At this point, the installer is beta quality and needs plenty of testing |
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and feedback to help get it finalized and released. Anyone who is |
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interested, please download the latest version[2] and try it out. |
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--kurt |
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[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gsds/ |
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[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gsds/downloads/gsds-20040109-1.tar.bz2 |
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