On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 16:13, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > In an environment of five or six homogenous machines, repeated > "download, unpack, make, make install" process is time consuming. > I suppose I should learn to build packages, and it would be a > little easier. > > With just a few machines, though, it would be even easier if > I could do a "make install" to remote machines, perhaps > giving this hypothetical tool a list of all the machines I > want to do the same installation on. > > Since I am not as clever as a skilled programmer, I assume this > desire has already been addressed, and there is an existing > tool that would be good for this. Â Suggestions?
If your machines are well-synchronized in terms of what is installed upon them, NFS is the tool I've used in the past--you can use it one of two ways: 1 [preferred in my opinion]) - install everything to /usr/local, and NFS export /usr/local to all client machines, and you're done. you'll have to diddle the makefile paths (hopefully stuff uses configure so you can just ./configure --prefix=/usr/local instead of editing stuff...) 2) make your build directory available on nfs at the same path. build on one machine, then ssh around and cd /nfshomedir ; make install on various machines. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
