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On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:42:17 +0100, Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: |
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> I have successfully deployed Gentoo on about 30 desktop PCs in a |
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> corporate environment. |
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> Now, as I need to update the kernel on those PCs, I wonder if there is |
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> a standard Gentoo way (maybe a script or something), that people are |
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> using to build and deploy binary kernel packages. |
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kernels are handled differently, even if you built a package with |
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--buildpkg or quickpkg, only the source would be included. If the systems |
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are identical, what's wrong with simply packaging up the relevant contents |
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of /boot and /lib/modules? Even better, if the machines are all |
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networked, push the changes out with rsync then use tentakel (or a for |
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loop) to reboot each box. |
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You could also put this in an update script on each of the boxes then use |
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tentakel to run it on some or all of them. tentakel (in portage) is a |
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handy way of running the same command on a group of machines, and you can |
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set up named groups and subgroups to make life even easier. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I'm not tense, just terribly alert! |
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