Basically our "rules" are standard installs for roles. IE - Firewalls, File and Print (not many), Web Application, Database, SOE Desktops etc...
On these boxes we also dont install compilers or other development tools (unless of course its a development server / workstation).
One way to look at this is as images - but not :)
What we want to do is replace our RedHat boxes with Gentoo (for new installs) due to the EOL announced.
What I am thinking is something akin to the following
- Point each remote box to our "image" server (or for deskops possibly one out at the client site) to sync a portage tree. (do we just expose /usr/portage via rync?) - However what we want to do when we run an emerge [system|world] is to get binaries instead of source. I've read that you can emerge a binary with a -K but haven't played with it yet. - Our distribution server would keep the packages upto date, mostly by hand at the minute, but someway to separate USE (etc...) settings for different "profiles" would be nice
What would be involved in doing something like the above?
Andrew Hatfield Systems Engineer - RHCE
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