Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Ajai Khattri <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:29:58
Message-Id: 20090802132842.T10141@shell.bway.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones by Dan Farrell
1 On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
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3 > hmm... network booting? network mounting? install packages once on
4 > one system, share them with everyone. Share passwd/shadow files and
5 > the like manually, or symlink them to skeletal versions symlinked to
6 > somewhere that can be obscured and replaced by a network boot. you
7 > could even boot them from thumb drives or cds.
8 >
9 > of course, it would be a good bit of work to configure initially,
10 > and might not go whithout a hitch.
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12 For configuration, you may want to look at something like puppet to manage
13 that. Your build machine would the puppetmaster and keep the other
14 machines' configs up-to-date.
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