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Am 19.01.2015 um 19:03 schrieb James: |
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> I think you drasitcally over_estimate the number of those happy linux |
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> distro users. I think if there was an easy way to perform a few typical |
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> gentoo installs (workstation, mail-server, web server, dns server, |
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> hardended*) then folks would migrate heavily towards gentoo. |
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> I think Alan and his ansible_installs has the mindset for an experimentail |
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> gentoo-ansible install engine; not for all possible tweaked installs but |
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> certainly some of more (amd64) common installs. The questions is will |
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> someone who get anisble_based_gentoo_install working be afforded an |
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> "encouraging mechanism" to set up such a limited experimental installation |
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> semantic for new gentoo installs? |
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I learned my first steps with ansible around these ansible-playbook(s): |
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https://github.com/jameskyle/ansible-gentoo |
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Based on that I have done some changes and enhancements for my |
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(learning) needs and it was rather *easy* ... |
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For example changing init to systemd if you want to ... I plan writing |
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some patches to install to plain partitions instead of running LVM under |
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the hood as the original roles do (should be rather simple afaik) |
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The script(s) logs into the started VM (booted from live-media and with |
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a running sshd) ... partitions the disk, pulls latest stage3 ... does |
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the chroot-stuff etc etc / you define some settings in a file and let it |
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run. |
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The playbook and roles take up some MB here and it took about 30min to |
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install a full ~amd64 gentoo onto a VM that booted at first time (use |
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more recent hardware to improve ... I used an i7-2600 and KVM for the |
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VM). And this is *automated* ... so (nearly no ... my patches aren't |
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perfect yet) no manual intervention needed. And you can point it to some |
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physical machine as well, sure. |
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As the gentoo-installation is CLI-based and basically scriptable this is |
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really an interesting approach. |
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It definitely is worth more than only one thought to write some more |
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playbooks for specific use cases here. |
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And I am sure that if you gentoo-users with all your experience |
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contribute to such a project we would be able to get some cool |
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installation-playbooks cooked rather quickly ;-) |
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These installations would get people up and running within shorter time, |
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from there gentoo is still configurable as we know and like it. |
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Stefan |
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