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Might be alot of work, if you have a few hundred machines, having to go an |
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touch each of them to compile the kernel is going to be alot of work. Also, |
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it might be ideal not to have a compiler on all of these systems. |
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On 10/02/2008, Tom Grace <stonertom@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> > i'd like to avoid having to compile a kernel on each and every host. how |
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> > do you install a prebuilt kernel onto the host, fx. after having |
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> deployed |
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> > a stage4 using quickstart? |
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> Just curiosity, but what is the problem with doing a kernel compile on |
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> each machine? |
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> I was thinking could you config/make the kernel on one machine, then |
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> .tar.bz2 up the whole /usr/src/linux directory, then just do the install |
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> phase on the target machine? |
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> Just wondering if there's a simple solution to this :) |
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> On 10/02/2008, Todd Hebert <todd@×××.ie> wrote: |
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> > Wow! |
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> > That's a Gentoo-minded admin. :) |
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> > That would be easy too.. make a tarball of the binary kernel, copy the |
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> > standard kernel ebuild and add a new section to drop the binaries in |
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> > from the new tarball, then put the new ebuild in an overlay! |
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> > Petteri, that is one very elegant idea! Kudos! (I'll make note of it |
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> > future kit rollouts myself!) |
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> > --Todd |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Petteri Räty <petteri.raty@××××××××××.fi> |
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> > To: gentoo-server@l.g.o |
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> > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:59:46 +0200 |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] binary kernel package |
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> > > Thilo Bangert kirjoitti: |
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> > > > i'd like to avoid having to compile a kernel on each and every host. |
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> > > how |
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> > > > do you install a prebuilt kernel onto the host, fx. after having |
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> > > deployed |
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> > > > a stage4 using quickstart? the best thing i can come up with is |
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> > > > my own custom script, which pulls a tarball via http. the tarball |
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> > > > modules, the initrd and the kernel... |
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> > > You could write an ebuild installing a binary kernel to /boot |
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> > > Regards, |
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> > > Petteri |
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