On 09/30/2013 06:31 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Keeping all of the laptops 100% identical as far as hardware is >>> central to this plan. I know I'm setting myself up for big problems >>> otherwise. >>> >>> I'm hoping I can emerge every package on my laptop that every other >>> laptop needs. That way I can fix any build problems and update any >>> config files right on my own system. Then I would push config file >>> differences to all of the other laptops. Then each laptop could >>> emerge its own stuff unattended. >> I see what you desire now - essentially you want to clone your laptop >> (or big chunks of it) over to your other workstations. > That sounds about right. > >> To get a feel for how it works, visit puppet's web site and download >> some of the test appliances they have there and run them in vm software. >> Set up a server and a few clients, and start experimenting in that >> sandbox. You'll quickly get a feel for how it all hangs together (it's >> hard to describe in text how puppet gets the job done, so much easier to >> do it for real and watch the results) > Puppet seems like overkill for what I need. I think all I really need > is something to manage config file differences and user accounts. At > this point I'm thinking I shouldn't push packages themselves, but > portage config files and then let each laptop emerge unattended based > on those portage configs. I'm going to bring this to the 'salt' > mailing list to see if it might be a good fit. It seems like a much > lighter weight application. > > I'm soaking up a lot of your time (again). I'll return with any real > Gentoo questions I run into and to run down the final plan before I > execute it. Thanks so much for your help. Not sure what I'd do > without you. :) > > - Grant > maybe someone could chip in re: experience with distributed compilation and cached compiles? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc http://ccache.samba.org/
this may be closer to what you are looking for ?
