Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 18:00 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: the only remaining problem I can think of right now (I'm sure others will pop up once I try it ;)) is configfile management. A nightly removal of all the ._cfg* files plus some scheme to keep the configs in sync with an SVN server

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-07 Thread Aniruddha Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: Yep. That is most certainly a problem. Unless of course you're so sure and you can remove CONFIG_PROTECT and then get use buildpkg's to package in the created tbz2 with the new updated configs. (yeah, you can't use --buildpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:47 +0530, Aniruddha Shankar wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Yep. That is most certainly a problem. Unless of course you're so sure and you can remove CONFIG_PROTECT and then get use buildpkg's to package in the created tbz2 with the new updated configs. (yeah, you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:14:07 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: why? Isn't this essentially `emerge --buildpkg` ? Have you looked at buildpkg Matthias? I've used it before on similar machines. Seems to work ok. Granted, you can't just `emerge -upD world` on the copies, but you may get away

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-06 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Neil, on Monday, 2005-06-06 at 09:08:53, you wrote: Have you looked at buildpkg Matthias? I've used it before on similar machines. Seems to work ok. Granted, you can't just `emerge -upD world` on the copies, but you may get away with minimal effort. You can if you use a shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 20:55 -0400, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: If there were such a script that could copy the binaries and the new files to all the other machines I would probably not trust it! :) why? Isn't this essentially `emerge --buildpkg` ? Have you looked at

[gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-03 Thread Matthias Bethke
There's some SuSE-based workstations around me here I have to take care of. I guess they won't have to bear SuSE for much longer though. The alternatives I can imagine now are Debian and Gentoo. Personally I'd prefer Gentoo, but I don't feel like reinventing the weel by writing my own deployment

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-03 Thread Antonino Sabetta
mentioning such setups here, so I guess somebody has developed the stuff I'd need already? I'd be thankful for any hint or pointer... This does not answer you question, but probably could be a partial solution: have you considered cloning the hd of the 'first' machine and then copying it to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-03 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Antonino, on Friday, 2005-06-03 at 20:55:43, you wrote: So you're actually trying to reuse even the compilation work performed on the 'first' (let's call it 'master') machine and avoid compiling on all the others when you do an emerge --update world for instance? That was my idea, or rather