Re: [gentoo-server] gentoo inside of an infrastructure

[Jared Klett]

wow, that's a good site (by the way, it's "infrastructures" plural, 
dot org):

http://www.infrastructures.org/

	it addresses some of the problems I'm having now that my network of 
machines is growing. I have a standard set of packages that I emerge, 
but it's a pain to maintain each machine individually and make sure 
that everything is configured properly. I'm prone to mistakes - i.e., I 
just discovered that vixie-cron was never added to the default runlevel 
on a dev machine!

	I'll be reading up on this and hopefully can share my insights into 
Christian's questions.

cheers,

- Jared


On Apr 19, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Christian Affolter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> at the moment I'm in the process of planing/deploying an infrastructure
> environment based on gentoo (infrastructure servers and clients).
>
> The infrastructure should mainly be based on the famous
> infrastructure.org paper.
>
> I'm planning to have a "gold-server" with pre-compile binary packages,
> as well as the related configuration files. Those divided into
> different
> host groups (web, mail etc.).
> All of the above should be under version control.
>
> Hence my questions related to this topic:
> What approaches/tools are you using (for example for host installation,
> application/configuration management, ad hoc changes etc.)?
>
> Is it wise to use the gentoo specific tools (like emerge) on the
> clients, or do you prefer more "generalized" tools?
>
> Well, one specific question I have a the moment is how to strip down a
> gentoo system to it's base system. So that it doesn't contains any
> development tools/dependencies (compilers, dev-libs, etc.)? Since I
> would like to use binary packages on the clients.
>
> It would be really great if you could share your experience, thoughts,
> hints etc. regarding this subject.
>
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> regards,
> Christian
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