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On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:01:47 +0100 |
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"Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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> I happily use git for local repositories to track configs in /etc or |
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> for example, /root/bin or /usr/local/bin (scripts ..) |
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> There is also etckeeper, yes, useful as well. |
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> But I would like to have some kind of meta-repo for all the |
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> gentoo-servers I am responsible for ... some remote repo to pull from. |
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> Most files in /etc might be rather identical so it would make sense to |
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> only track the individual changes (saves space and bandwidth) |
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> Maybe it would be possible to use git-branches for each server? |
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> Does anyone of you already use something like that? |
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> What would be a proper and clever way to do that? |
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> Yes, I know, there is puppet and stuff ... but as far as I see this is |
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> overkill for my needs. |
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> I'd like to maintain some good and basic /etc, maybe plus |
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> /var/lib/portage/world and /root/.alias (etc etc ..) to be able to |
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> deploy a good and nice standardized gentoo server. Then adjust config |
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> at the customer (network, fstab, ...) and commit this to a central |
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> repo (on my main server at my office or so). |
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> Yes, rsyncing that stuff also works in a way ... but ... versioning is |
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> better. |
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> How do you guys manage this? |
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> Looking forward to your good ideas ;-) |
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> Regards, Stefan |
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You are probably looking for cfengine or puppet |
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Jan Matějka | Gentoo Developer |
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