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Christian Affolter wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> at the moment I'm in the process of planing/deploying an infrastructure |
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> environment based on gentoo (infrastructure servers and clients). |
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> The infrastructure should mainly be based on the famous |
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> infrastructure.org paper. |
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> I'm planning to have a "gold-server" with pre-compile binary packages, |
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> as well as the related configuration files. Those divided into different |
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> host groups (web, mail etc.). |
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> All of the above should be under version control. |
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> Hence my questions related to this topic: |
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> What approaches/tools are you using (for example for host installation, |
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> application/configuration management, ad hoc changes etc.)? |
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> Is it wise to use the gentoo specific tools (like emerge) on the |
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> clients, or do you prefer more "generalized" tools? |
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Once I find time, I was hoping to get the gentoo server project working on such |
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tools. If you do write a nice tool for servers, please let us know and maybe we |
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could include it in portage! |
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> Well, one specific question I have a the moment is how to strip down a |
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> gentoo system to it's base system. So that it doesn't contains any |
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> development tools/dependencies (compilers, dev-libs, etc.)? Since I |
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> would like to use binary packages on the clients. |
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I haven't personally done that, but I think a few folks on here have. |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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