On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:31:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> (or big chunks of it) over to your other workstations. > > > > 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. > > Two general points I can add: > > 1. Sharing config files turns out to be really hard. By far the easiest > way is to just share /etc but that is an all or nothing approach, and > you just need one file to be different to break it. Like /etc/hostname > > You *could* create a "share" directory inside /etc and symlink common > files in there, but that gets very tedious quickly.
How about using something like unison? I've been using it for a while now to sync a specific subset of ~ between three computers. It allows for exclude rules for host-specific stuff. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. No, you *can’t* call 999 now. I’m downloading my mail.
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